1There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the Lord. The Lord said, "It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites."

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

2The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);

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

3and David said to the Gibeonites, "What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless 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 said to him, "It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel." He said, "Whatever you say, that will I do for you."

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

5They said to the king, "The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

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

6let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the Lord." The king said, "I will give 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 spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the Lord's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son 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 took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

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

9He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before the Lord, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.

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

10Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.

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

11It was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the 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

12David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed 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

13and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son: and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.

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14They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that God was entreated for the land.

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

15The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;

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

16and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being armed with a new sword, thought to have slain David.

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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 son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, "You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you do not quench the lamp 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

18It came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.

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

19There was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite's brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

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

20There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.

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

21When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, killed 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 four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

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