BRAGADAYJAH 968
Three Year Famine
And after these things, there came a famine in the land for three years. And David sought the Lord concerning the famine; and the Lord told him the famine was brought about because of the sin of Saul and his bloody house in that he sinned in slaughtering the Gibeonites. And the king called the Gibeonites and asked them what he could do for them, and how he may make atonement that they may bless the inheritance of the LORD? And they told David that they would have no silver or gold which belonged to Saul, or of his house, and that he should not kill any man in Israel on their account. And David asked them again, what they would require that he did for them. For the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but were the remnants of the Amorites whom the children of Israel had vowed not to destroy, but to allow them to live among them in peace; but Saul had gone ahead and slaughtered them out of excessive zeal for the children of Israel. So now they answered David the king and told him that they would ask that seven of the sons of the man that sought to destroy them, and to wipe them off the face of the coasts of Israel, may be delivered to them; and they would hang them up unto the Lord in Gibeah of Saul; and David agreed to their request. But the king spared Mephibosheth who was the son of Jonathon the son of Saul because of the Lord’s oath that was taken between David and Jonathon. But the king took seven of the children of Saul and delivered them unto the Gibeonites and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord; and all seven of them were put to death on the first day of the barley harvest.
Three Year Famine
And after these things, there came a famine in the land for three years. And David sought the Lord concerning the famine; and the Lord told him the famine was brought about because of the sin of Saul and his bloody house in that he sinned in slaughtering the Gibeonites. And the king called the Gibeonites and asked them what he could do for them, and how he may make atonement that they may bless the inheritance of the LORD? And they told David that they would have no silver or gold which belonged to Saul, or of his house, and that he should not kill any man in Israel on their account. And David asked them again, what they would require that he did for them. For the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but were the remnants of the Amorites whom the children of Israel had vowed not to destroy, but to allow them to live among them in peace; but Saul had gone ahead and slaughtered them out of excessive zeal for the children of Israel. So now they answered David the king and told him that they would ask that seven of the sons of the man that sought to destroy them, and to wipe them off the face of the coasts of Israel, may be delivered to them; and they would hang them up unto the Lord in Gibeah of Saul; and David agreed to their request. But the king spared Mephibosheth who was the son of Jonathon the son of Saul because of the Lord’s oath that was taken between David and Jonathon. But the king took seven of the children of Saul and delivered them unto the Gibeonites and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord; and all seven of them were put to death on the first day of the barley harvest.
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