1Then there was a famine in the dayes of Dauid, three yeeres together: and Dauid asked counsell of the Lord, and the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloodie house, because hee slewe the Gibeonites.

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Joshua 7:11, Joshua 7:12, Joshua 7:11, Joshua 7:12, Genesis 12:10

2Then ye King called the Gibeonites and said vnto them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but a remnant of the Amorites, vnto whom ye children of Israel had sworne: but Saul sought to slay them for his zeale toward the children of Israel and Iudah)

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2 Kings 10:16, Joshua 9:3, Joshua 9:21, Galatians 4:17, Romans 10:2

3And Dauid said vnto the Gibeonites, What shall I doe for you, and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may blesse the inheritance of the Lord?

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2 Samuel 20:19, 2 Samuel 20:19, Hebrews 9:22, 1 Samuel 26:19, Hebrews 9:22

4The Gibeonites then answered him, Wee will haue no siluer nor golde of Saul nor of his house, neither for vs shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I doe for you.

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Psalms 49:6, Psalms 49:8, 1 Peter 1:18, 1 Peter 1:19, Psalms 49:6

5Then they answered the King, The man that consumed vs and that imagined euill against vs, so that we are destroyed from remaining in any coast of Israel,

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2 Samuel 21:1, 2 Samuel 21:1, Daniel 9:26, Esther 9:24, Esther 9:25

6Let seuen men of his sonnes be deliuered vnto vs, and we will hang them vp vnto the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, the Lordes chosen. And the King said, I will giue them.

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1 Samuel 10:24, 1 Samuel 10:24, Numbers 25:4, Numbers 25:5, 1 Samuel 11:4

7But the King had compassion on Mephibosheth the sonne of Ionathan the sonne of Saul, because of the Lordes othe, that was betweene them, euen betweene Dauid and Ionathan the sonne of Saul.

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1 Samuel 18:3, 1 Samuel 23:18, 2 Samuel 4:4, 1 Samuel 20:15, 1 Samuel 18:3

8But the King tooke the two sonnes of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whome shee bare vnto Saul, euen Armoni and Mephibosheth and the fiue sonnes of Michal, the daughter of Saul, whome shee bare to Adriel the sonne of Barzillai the Meholathite.

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2 Samuel 3:7, 1 Samuel 18:19, 2 Samuel 3:7, 1 Samuel 18:19

9And hee deliuered them vnto the handes of the Gibeonites, which hanged them in the mountaine before the Lord: so they died all seuen together, and they were slaine in the time of haruest: in the first dayes, and in the beginning of barly haruest.

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Ruth 1:22, Ruth 1:22, 2 Samuel 6:21, 2 Samuel 6:17, 2 Samuel 21:6

10Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah tooke sackecloth and hanged it vp for her vpon the rocke, from the beginning of haruest, vntill water dropped vpon them from the heauen, and suffered neither the birdes of the aire to light on the by day, nor beasts of the fielde by night.

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Deuteronomy 21:23, Deuteronomy 21:23, 1 Kings 21:27, 2 Samuel 3:7, Joel 2:23

11And it was told Dauid, what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah ye concubine of Saul had done.

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2 Samuel 2:4, Ruth 2:11, Ruth 2:12, 2 Samuel 2:4, Ruth 2:11

12And Dauid went and tooke the bones of Saul and the bones of Ionathan his sonne from the citizens of Iabesh Gilead, which had stollen them from the streete of Beth-shan, where the Philistims had hanged them, when the Philistims had slaine Saul in Gilboa.

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1 Samuel 31:10, 1 Samuel 31:13, Joshua 17:11, 1 Samuel 31:10, 1 Samuel 31:13

13So hee brought thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Ionathan his sonne, and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

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14And the bones of Saul and of Ionathan his sonne buried they in the coutrey of Beniamin in Zelah, in the graue of Kish his father: and when they had perfourmed all that the King had commanded, God was then appeased with the land.

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2 Samuel 24:25, Joshua 18:28, 2 Samuel 24:25, Joshua 18:28, Joshua 7:26

15Againe the Philistims had warre with Israel: and Dauid went downe, and his seruants with him, and they fought against the Philistims, and Dauid fainted.

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Joshua 14:10, Joshua 14:11, Joshua 14:10, Joshua 14:11, 1 Chronicles 20:4

16Then Ishi-benob which was of the sonnes of Haraphah (the head of whose speare wayed three hundreth shekels of brasse) euen he being girded with a newe sword, thought to haue slaine Dauid.

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2 Samuel 21:18, 2 Samuel 21:20, 2 Samuel 21:18, 2 Samuel 21:20, 2 Samuel 5:18

17But Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistim, and killed him. Then Dauids men sware vnto him, saying, Thou shalt goe no more out with vs to battell, lest thou quench the light of Israel.

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1 Kings 11:36, 1 Kings 11:36, 2 Samuel 18:3, 2 Samuel 18:3, 1 Kings 15:4

18And after this also there was a battell with the Philistims at Gob, then Sibbechai the Hushathite slewe Saph, which was one of ye sonnes of Haraphah.

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1 Chronicles 11:29, 1 Chronicles 11:29, 2 Samuel 21:20, 2 Samuel 21:20, 1 Chronicles 27:11

19And there was yet another battel in Gob with the Philistims, where Elhanah the sonne of Iaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite slewe Goliath the Gittite: the staffe of whose speare was like a weauers beame.

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1 Chronicles 20:5, 1 Chronicles 20:5, 1 Chronicles 11:26, 1 Samuel 17:4, 1 Samuel 17:11

20Afterward there was also a battel in Gath, where was a man of a great stature, and had on euerie hand sixe fingers, and on euerie foote sixe toes, foure and twentie in nomber: who was also the sonne of Haraphah.

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2 Samuel 21:16, 2 Samuel 21:18, 2 Samuel 21:16, 2 Samuel 21:18, 1 Chronicles 20:6

21And when hee reuiled Israel, Ionathan the sonne of Shima the brother of Dauid slewe him.

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1 Samuel 17:25, 1 Samuel 17:26, 1 Samuel 17:36, 1 Samuel 16:9, 1 Samuel 17:10

22These foure were borne to Haraphah in Gath, and died by the hande of Dauid and by the hands of his seruants.

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1 Chronicles 20:8, 1 Chronicles 20:8, Romans 8:31, Romans 8:31, Jeremiah 9:23