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The three years of famine, and the Gibeonites who ask for seven of Saul’s sons

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2 Samuel 21:1–6: there is a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David seeks the face of the LORD. The LORD says, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.” The king calls the Gibeonites and says 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); and David says to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless the LORD’s inheritance?” The Gibeonites say 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 says, “I will do for you whatever you say.” They say to the king, “The man who consumed us and who plotted against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel, let 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 says, “I will give them.” The Korean Revised Version gives the words about the Gibeonites and Saul first at 21:2 and ends the verse with 이에 왕이 기브온 사람을 불러 물으니라 (then the king called the Gibeonites and asked them); at 21:4 it names the king (왕이 가로되) where WEB says “He said”.

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2SA 21:1–6, engwebp
¹There was a famine in the days of David for 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 the Gibeonites to death.”
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);
³and David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless the LORD’s inheritance?”
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, “I will do for you whatever you say.”
⁵They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and who plotted against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,
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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Evidence: 2 Samuel 21:1–6

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Entry: The three years of famine, and the Gibeonites who ask for seven of Saul’s sons (event-2sa-21-the-famine-and-the-gibeonites)
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Current wording: 2 Samuel 21:1–6: there is a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David seeks the face of the LORD. The LORD says, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.” The king calls the Gibeonites and says 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); and David says to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless the LORD’s inheritance?” The Gibeonites say 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 says, “I will do for you whatever you say.” They say to the king, “The man who consumed us and who plotted against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel, let 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 says, “I will give them.” The Korean Revised Version gives the words about the Gibeonites and Saul first at 21:2 and ends the verse with 이에 왕이 기브온 사람을 불러 물으니라 (then the king called the Gibeonites and asked them); at 21:4 it names the king (왕이 가로되) where WEB says “He said”.
Cited evidence: 2SA 21:1–6, engwebp
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