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2 Samuel

1. 21:1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
2. 21:2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto 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 unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
3. 21:3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?
4. 21:4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.
5. 21:5 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 Israel,
6. 21:6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
7. 21:7 But 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.
8. 21:8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
9. 21:9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
10. 21:10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah 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 on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
11. 21:11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
12. 21:12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
13. 21:13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
14. 21:14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.
15. 21:16 And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.
16. 21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.
17. 21:18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.
18. 21:19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
19. 21:20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that 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.
20. 21:21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.
21. 21:22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
22. 22:1 And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
23. 22:3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
24. 22:5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
25. 22:6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
26. 22:7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
27. 22:8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
28. 22:9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
29. 22:11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
30. 22:12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
31. 22:13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
32. 22:16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
33. 22:17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
34. 22:19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
35. 22:21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
36. 22:22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
37. 22:31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.
38. 22:35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
39. 22:36 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.
40. 22:41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
41. 22:43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
42. 22:44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
43. 22:46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
44. 22:47 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
45. 22:51 He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
46. 23:1 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
47. 23:2 The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
48. 23:3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
49. 23:4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
50. 23:6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: