2 Samuel
2 Samuel 21
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2 Samuel 21 — Scripture text (King James Version)
Then there was a famine in the days of three years, year after year; and enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for , and for his bloody house, because he slew the . And the king called the , and said unto them; (now the were not of the children of , but of the of the ; and the children of had sworn unto them: and sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of and .) Wherefore said unto the , What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the , that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD? And the said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of , nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in . And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you. And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of , Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in of , whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them. But the king spared , the son of the son of , because of the LORD’S oath that was between them, between and the son of . But the king took the two sons of the daughter of , whom she bare unto , Armoni and ; and the five sons of the daughter of , whom she brought up for the son of the : And he delivered them into the hands of the , and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest. And the daughter of took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night. And it was told what the daughter of , the concubine of , had done. And went and took the bones of and the bones of his son from the men of -, which had stolen them from the street of -shan, where the had hanged them, when the had slain in : And he brought up from thence the bones of and the bones of his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged. And the bones of and his son buried they in the country of in , in the sepulchre of his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land. Moreover the had yet war again with ; and went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the : and waxed faint. And -benob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose weighed three hundred of brass in weight, he being girded with a new , thought to have slain . But the son of succoured him, and smote the , and killed him. Then the men of sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of . And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the at : then the slew , which was of the sons of the giant. And there was again a battle in with the , where the son of -oregim, a , slew the brother of the , the of whose was like a weaver’s beam. And there was yet a battle in , where was a man of great stature, that had every hand six fingers, and every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant. And when he defied , the son of the brother of slew him. These four were born to the giant in , and fell by the hand of , and by the hand of his servants.