English Bible Presentation Sharing - 2-Samuel Book, chapter 21, verse 32 in Nlv Version

2 Samuel 21 : 1 (NLV)

While David was king there was a time without food for three years. David went to the Lord. The Lord said, "It is because of Saul and his house of blood, for he put the Gibeonites to death."

2 Samuel 21 : 2 (NLV)

So the king called the Gibeonites. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel, but of the people who were left of the Amorites. The sons of Israel had made an agreement with them. But Saul had wanted to kill them because he thought so much of the sons of Israel and Judah.)

2 Samuel 21 : 3 (NLV)

David said to the Gibeonites, "What should I do for you? How can I pay for the sin, so you may bring good to the land of the Lord?"

2 Samuel 21 : 4 (NLV)

The Gibeonites said to him, "We will take no silver or gold from Saul or his family. And it is not for us to put any man to death in Israel." David said, "I will do for you whatever you say."

2 Samuel 21 : 5 (NLV)

So they said to the king, "Saul destroyed us and planned to keep us from staying in any land of Israel.

2 Samuel 21 : 6 (NLV)

Let seven men from his sons be given to us. We will hang them before the Lord at Gibeon on the Lord's mountain." And the king said, "I will give them."

2 Samuel 21 : 7 (NLV)

But the king kept alive Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because David had made a promise to Saul's son Jonathan before the Lord.

2 Samuel 21 : 8 (NLV)

The king took the two sons of Aiah's daughter Rizpah, Armoni and Mephibosheth, whom she had born to Saul. And he took the five sons of Saul's daughter Merab, whom she had born to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

2 Samuel 21 : 9 (NLV)

He gave them to the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the Lord. The seven of them died together. They were put to death in the first days of gathering time, when the barley was ready to gather.

2 Samuel 21 : 10 (NLV)

Aiah's daughter Rizpah spread cloth made from hair on the rock for herself to lie upon, from the beginning of gathering time until the rain fell from the sky upon the bodies. She would not let the birds of the sky rest on them during the day, or the animals of the field during the night.

2 Samuel 21 : 11 (NLV)

David was told what Aiah's daughter Rizpah, Saul's woman, had done.

2 Samuel 21 : 12 (NLV)

Then he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead. They had stolen them from the open space in the center of Bethshan. That was where the Philistines had hanged them on the day they killed Saul in Gilboa.

2 Samuel 21 : 13 (NLV)

David brought the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan. They gathered the bones of those who had been hanged.

2 Samuel 21 : 14 (NLV)

And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the grave of Kish his father. They did all that the king told them to do. After that, God heard and answered when they prayed for the land.

2 Samuel 21 : 15 (NLV)

The Philistines were at war again with Israel. David went down with his servants and they fought the Philistines. And David became tired.

2 Samuel 21 : 16 (NLV)

Then Ishbi-benob wanted to kill David. He was one of the sons of the very tall and strong people. His spear weighed as much as 300 pieces of brass, and he had a new sword.

2 Samuel 21 : 17 (NLV)

But Zeruiah's son Abishai helped David and killed the Philistine. Then David's men promised him, "You will not go out again with us to battle. You might put out the lamp of Israel."

2 Samuel 21 : 18 (NLV)

After this there was war again with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was one of the sons of the very tall and strong people.

2 Samuel 21 : 19 (NLV)

There was war with the Philistines again at Gob. And Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite. Goliath's spear was like the heavy piece of wood used by a clothmaker.

2 Samuel 21 : 20 (NLV)

There was war at Gath again. There was a very tall man there who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number. He was one of the sons of the very tall and strong people also.

2 Samuel 21 : 21 (NLV)

When he spoke against Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, killed him.

2 Samuel 21 : 22 (NLV)

These four were sons of the very tall and strong people in Gath. They were killed by David and his servants.