21:1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of YHWH (יהוה). And YHWH (יהוה) answered, [It is] for Sha'ul, and for [his] bloody house, because he slew the Giveonim.
21:2 And the king called the Giveonim, and said unto them; (now the Giveonim [were] not of Benai Yisra'el, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and Benai Yisra'el had sworn unto them: and Sha'ul sought to slay them in his zeal to Benai Yisra'el and Yehudah.)
Wherefore David said unto the Giveonim:
What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of YHWH (יהוה)?
And the Giveonim said unto him:
We will have no silver nor gold of Sha'ul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Yisra'el. 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 Yisra'el,
21:6 Let shivah (7) anashim (men) of his banim be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto YHWH (יהוה) in Giveah of Sha'ul, [whom] YHWH (יהוה) did choose. And the king said, I will give [them].
21:7 But the king spared Mephivoshet Ben Yonatan Ben Sha'ul, because of YHWH (יהוה)'S oath that [was] between them, between David and Yonatan Ben Sha'ul.
21:8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah Bat Ayah, whom she bare unto Sha'ul, Armoni and Mephivoshet; and the five sons of Mikhal Bat Sha'ul, whom she brought up for Adriel Ben Barzillai haMecholati:
21:9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Giveonim, and they hanged them in the hill before YHWH (יהוה): and they fell [all] seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first [days], in the beginning of katzir se'orim (barley harvest).
21:10 And Rizpah Bat Ayah 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.
21:11 And it was told David what Rizpah Bat Ayah, the concubine of Sha'ul, had done.
21:12 And David went and took the bones of Sha'ul and the bones of Yonatan his son from the men of Yavesh-Gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beit-shan, where the Pelishtim had hanged them, when the Pelishtim had slain Sha'ul in Gilboa:
21:13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Sha'ul and the bones of Yonatan his son; and they Gatered the bones of them that were hanged.
21:14 And the bones of Sha'ul and Yonatan his son buried they in the country of Benyamin in Zelah, in the Kever of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that Elohim (אלהים) was intreated for the land.
21:15 Moreover the Pelishtim had yet war again with Yisra'el; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Pelishtim: and David waxed faint.
21:16 And Yishbi-benov, 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.
21:17 But Avishai Ben Zeruyah succoured him, and smote the Pelishtim, 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 Yisra'el.
21:18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Pelishtim at Gov: then Sibbechai the Chushati slew Saph, which [was] of the sons of the giant.
21:19 And there was again a battle in Gov with the Pelishtim, where Elchanan Ben Ya’arei-orgim, from Beit-Lechem, slew [the brother of] Golyat (גלית) ha Gitti, the staff of whose spear [was] like a weaver's beam.
21:20 And there was yet a battle in Gat, 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.
21:21 And when he defied Yisra'el, Yonatan Ben Shimea the brother of David slew him.
21:22 These four were born to the giant in Gat, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.