1 Nos dias de Davi houve uma fome de três anos consecutivos; pelo que Davi consultou ao Senhor; e o Senhor lhe disse: E por causa de Saul e da sua casa sanguinária, porque matou os gibeonitas.
2 Então o rei chamou os gibeonitas e falou com eles {ora, os gibeonitas não eram dos filhos de Israel, mas do restante dos amorreus; e os filhos de Israel tinham feito pacto com eles; porém Saul, no seu zelo pelos filhos de Israel e de Judá, procurou feri-los};
3 perguntou, pois, Davi aos gibeonitas: Que quereis que eu vos faça. e como hei de fazer expiação, para que abençoeis a herança do Senhor?
4 Então os gibeonitas lhe disseram: Não é por prata nem ouro que temos questão com Saul e com a sua casa; nem tampouco cabe a nós matar pessoa alguma em Israel. Disse-lhes Davi: Que quereis que vos faça?
5 Responderam ao rei: Quanto ao homem que nos consumia, e procurava destruir-nos, de modo que não pudéssemos subsistir em termo algum de Israel,
6 de seus filhos se nos dêem sete homens, para que os enforquemos ao Senhor em Gibeá de Saul, o eleito do Senhor. E o rei disse: Eu os darei.
7 O rei, porém, poupou a Mefibosete, filho de Jônatas, filho de Saul, por causa do juramento do Senhor que entre eles houvera, isto é, entre Davi e Jônatas, filho de Saul.
8 Mas o rei tomou os dois filhos de Rizpa, filha de Aías, que ela tivera de Saul, a saber, a Armoni e a Mefibosete, como também os cinco filhos de Merabe, filha de Saul, que ela tivera de Adriel, filho de Barzilai, meolatita,
9 e os entregou na mão dos gibeonitas, os quais os enforcaram no monte, perante o Senhor; e os sete caíram todos juntos. Foi nos primeiros dias da sega que foram mortos, no princípio a sega da cevada.
10 Então Rizpa, filha de Aías, tomando um pano de cilício, estendeu-o para si sobre uma pedra e, desde o princípio da sega até que a água caiu do céu sobre os corpos, não deixou que se aproximassem deles as aves do céu de dia, nem os animais do campo de noite:
11 Quando foi anunciado a Davi o que fizera Rizpa, filha de Aías, concubina de Saul,
12 ele foi e tomou os ossos de Saul e os de Jônatas seu filho, aos homens de Jabes-Gileade, que os haviam furtado da praça de Bete-Seã, onde os filisteus os tinham pendurado quando mataram a Saul em Gilboa;
13 e trouxe dali os ossos de Saul e os de Jônatas seu filho; e ajuntaram a eles também os ossos dos enforcados.
14 Enterraram os ossos de Saul e de Jônatas seu filho, na terra de Benjamim, em Zela, na sepultura de Quis, seu pai; e fizeram tudo o que o rei ordenara. Depois disto Deus se aplacou para com a terra.
15 De novo tiveram os filisteus uma guerra contra Israel. E desceu Davi, e com ele os seus servos; e tanto pelejara contra os filisteus, que Davi se cansou.
16 E Isbi-Benobe, que era dos filhos do gigante, cuja lança tinha o peso de trezentos, siclos de bronze, e que cingia uma espada nova, intentou matar Davi.
17 Porém, Abisai, filho de Zeruia, o socorreu; e, ferindo ao filisteu, o matou. Então os homens de Davi lhe juraram, dizendo: Nunca mais sairás conosco à batalha, para que não apagues a lâmpada de Israel.
18 Aconteceu depois disto que houve em Gobe ainda outra peleja contra os filisteus; então Sibecai, o husatita, matou Safe, que era dos filhos do gigante.
19 Houve mais outra peleja contra os filisteus em Gobe; e El-Hanã, filho de Jaaré-Oregim, o belemita, matou Golias, o giteu, de cuja lança a haste era como órgão de tecelão.
20 Houve ainda também outra peleja em Gate, onde estava um homem de alta estatura, que tinha seis dedos em cada mão, e seis em cada pé, vinte e quatro por todos; também este era descendente do gigante.
21 Tendo ele desafiado a Israel, Jônatas, filho de Simei, irmão de Davi, o matou.
22 Estes quatro nasceram ao gigante em Gate; e caíram pela mão de Davi e pela mão de seus servos.
1 And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul, and for {his} house of blood, because he slew the Gibeonites.
2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remainder of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to smite them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah.)
3 And David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and with what shall I make atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of Jehovah?
4 And the Gibeonites said to him, As to Saul and his house, it is with us no question of receiving silver or gold, neither is it for us to have any man put to death in Israel. And he said, What ye say will I do for you.
5 And they said to the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in all the borders of Israel,
6 let seven men of his sons be given up to us, and we will hang them up to Jehovah in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Jehovah. And the king said, I will give {them}.
7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Jehovah's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
8 And the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she had borne to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of {the sister of} Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;
9 and he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before Jehovah. And they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the first days of the harvest, in the beginning of barley harvest.
10 Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them out of the heavens, and suffered neither the fowl of the heavens 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, who had stolen them from the open place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, the day the Philistines had smitten 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 they buried {them} with the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish his father; and they did all that the king had commanded. And afterwards God was propitious to the land.
15 And the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought with the Philistines. And David was exhausted.
16 And Ishbibenob, who was of the children of Raphah-the weight of his lance was three hundred shekels of bronze, and he was girded with new {armour} -thought to smite David.
17 And Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the lamp 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 smote Saph, who was of the children of Raphah.
19 And there was again a battle at Gob with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite, smote Goliath the Gittite; now the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam.
20 And there was again a battle, at Gath; and there was a man {there} of great stature, that had on each hand six fingers, and on each foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to Raphah.
21 And he defied Israel; but Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother smote him.
22 These four were born to Raphah, in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.