2 Samuel 21:2-9
2 So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites, and athe sons of Israel made a covenant with them, but Saul had sought to strike them down in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah). 3 Thus David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And how can I make atonement that you may bless athe inheritance of Yahweh?” 4 Then the Gibeonites said to him, “aWe have no concern of silver or gold with Saul or his house, nor is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” And he said, “I will do for you whatever you say.” 5 So they said to the king, “aThe man who consumed us and who planned to eradicate us from standing within any border of Israel, 6 let seven men from his sons be given to us, and we will hang them abefore Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, bthe chosen of Yahweh.” And the king said, “I will give them.”
7 But the king spared aMephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, bbecause of the oath of Yahweh which was between them, between David and Saul’s son Jonathan. 8 So the king took the two sons of aRizpah the daughter of Aiah, Armoni and Mephibosheth whom she had borne to Saul, and the five sons of bMerab the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the cMeholathite. 9 Then he gave them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, so that the seven of them fell together; and they were put to death in the first days of harvest at athe beginning of barley harvest.
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