1 facta est quoque fames in diebus David tribus annis iugiter
et consuluit David oraculum Domini
dixitque Dominus propter Saul et domum eius et sanguinem
quia occidit Gabaonitas
2 vocatis ergo Gabaonitis rex dixit ad eos
porro Gabaonitae non sunt de filiis Israhel
sed reliquiae Amorreorum
filii quippe Israhel iuraverant eis
et voluit Saul percutere eos zelo quasi pro filiis Israhel et Iuda
3 dixit ergo David ad Gabaonitas
quid faciam vobis et quod erit vestri piaculum
ut benedicatis hereditati Domini
4 dixeruntque ei Gabaonitae
non est nobis super argento et auro quaestio
contra Saul et contra domum eius
neque volumus ut interficiatur homo de Israhel
ad quos ait quid ergo vultis ut faciam vobis
5 qui dixerunt regi
virum qui adtrivit nos et oppressit inique ita delere debemus
ut ne unus quidem residuus sit de stirpe eius in cunctis finibus Israhel
6 dentur nobis septem viri de filiis eius
et crucifigamus eos Domino
in Gabaath Saul quondam electi Domini
et ait rex ego dabo
7 pepercitque rex Mifiboseth filio Ionathan filii Saul
propter iusiurandum Domini
quod fuerat inter David et inter Ionathan filium Saul
8 tulit itaque rex duos filios Respha filiae Ahia
quos peperit Saul Armoni et Mifiboseth
et quinque filios Michol filiae Saul
quos genuerat Hadriheli filio Berzellai qui fuit de Molathi
9 et dedit eos in manu Gabaonitarum
qui crucifixerunt illos in monte coram Domino
et ceciderunt hii septem simul
occisi in diebus messis primis incipiente messione hordei
10 tollens autem Respha filia Ahia cilicium
substravit sibi super petram
ab initio messis donec stillaret aqua super eos de caelo
et non dimisit aves lacerare eos per diem neque bestias per noctem
11 et nuntiata sunt David quae fecerat Respha filia Ahia concubina Saul
12 et abiit David et tulit ossa Saul et ossa Ionathan filii eius
a viris Iabesgalaad qui furati fuerant ea de platea Bethsan
in qua suspenderant eos Philisthim
cum interfecissent Saul in Gelboe
13 et asportavit inde ossa Saul et ossa Ionathan filii eius
et colligentes ossa eorum qui adfixi fuerant
14 sepelierunt ea cum ossibus Saul et Ionathan filii eius
in terra Beniamin in latere in sepulchro Cis patris eius
feceruntque omnia quae praeceperat rex
et repropitiatus est Deus terrae post
haec
15 factum est autem rursum proelium Philisthinorum adversum Israhel
et descendit David et servi eius cum eo
et pugnabant contra Philisthim
deficiente autem David
16 Iesbidenob qui fuit de genere Arafa
cuius ferrum hastae trecentas uncias adpendebat
et accinctus erat ense novo
nisus est percutere David
17 praesidioque ei fuit Abisai filius Sarviae
et percussum Philistheum interfecit
tunc iuraverunt viri David dicentes
non egredieris nobiscum in bellum
ne extinguas lucernam Israhel
18 secundum quoque fuit bellum in Gob contra Philistheos
tunc percussit Sobbochai de Usathi Seph de stirpe Arafa
19 tertium quoque fuit bellum in Gob contra Philistheos
in quo percussit Adeodatus filius Saltus polymitarius bethleemites
Goliath Gettheum
cuius hastile hastae erat quasi liciatorium texentium
20 quartum bellum fuit in Geth in quo vir excelsus
qui senos in manibus pedibusque habebat digitos
id est viginti et quattuor
et erat de origine Arafa
21 blasphemavit Israhel
percussit autem eum Ionathan filius Sammaa fratris David
22 hii quattuor nati sunt de Arafa in Geth
et ceciderunt in manu David et servorum eius
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ¶ 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 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
12 ¶ And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa: 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 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 ¶ Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint. 16 And Ishbi-benob, 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. 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. 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. 19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Beth-lehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. 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. 21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him. 22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.