1 Houve, em dias de Davi, uma fome de três anos consecutivos. Davi consultou ao Senhor, e o Senhor lhe disse: Há culpa de sangue sobre Saul e sobre a sua casa, porque ele matou os gibeonitas. 2 Então, chamou o rei os gibeonitas e lhes falou. Os gibeonitas não eram dos filhos de Israel, mas do resto dos amorreus; e os filhos de Israel lhes tinham jurado poupá-los, porém Saul procurou destruí-los no seu zelo pelos filhos de Israel e de Judá. 3 Perguntou Davi aos gibeonitas: Que quereis que eu vos faça? E que resgate vos darei, 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 sua casa; nem tampouco pretendemos matar pessoa alguma em Israel. Disse Davi: Que é, pois, que quereis que vos faça? 5 Responderam ao rei: Quanto ao homem que nos destruiu e procurou que fôssemos assolados, sem que pudéssemos subsistir em limite algum de Israel, 6 de seus filhos se nos deem sete homens, para que os enforquemos ao Senhor, em Gibeá de Saul, o eleito do Senhor. Disse o rei: Eu os darei.

7 Porém o rei poupou a Mefibosete, filho de Jônatas, filho de Saul, por causa do juramento ao Senhor, que entre eles houvera, entre Davi e Jônatas, filho de Saul. 8 Porém tomou o rei os dois filhos de Rispa, filha de Aiá, que tinha tido de Saul, a saber, a Armoni e a Mefibosete, como também os cinco filhos de Merabe, filha de Saul, que tivera de Adriel, filho de Barzilai, meolatita; 9 e os entregou nas mãos dos gibeonitas, os quais os enforcaram no monte, perante o Senhor; caíram os sete juntamente. Foram mortos nos dias da ceifa, nos primeiros dias, no princípio da ceifa da cevada.

10 Então, Rispa, filha de Aiá, tomou um pano de saco e o estendeu para si sobre uma penha, desde o princípio da ceifa até que sobre eles caiu água do céu; e não deixou que as aves do céu se aproximassem deles de dia, nem os animais do campo, de noite. 11 Foi dito a Davi o que fizera Rispa, filha de Aiá e concubina de Saul. 12 Então, foi Davi e tomou os ossos de Saul e os ossos de Jônatas, seu filho, dos moradores de Jabes-Gileade, os quais os furtaram da praça de Bete-Seã, onde os filisteus os tinham pendurado, no dia em que feriram Saul em Gilboa. 13 Dali, transportou os ossos de Saul e os ossos de Jônatas, seu filho; e ajuntaram 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. Fizeram tudo o que o rei ordenara. Depois disto, Deus se tornou favorável para com a terra.

15 De novo, fizeram os filisteus guerra contra Israel. Desceu Davi com os seus homens, e pelejaram contra os filisteus, ficando Davi mui fatigado. 16 Isbi-Benobe descendia dos gigantes; o peso do bronze de sua lança era de trezentos siclos, e estava cingido de uma armadura nova; este intentou matar a Davi. 17 Porém Abisai, filho de Zeruia, socorreu-o, feriu o filisteu e o matou; então, os homens de Davi lhe juraram, dizendo: Nunca mais sairás conosco à peleja, para que não apagues a lâmpada de Israel.

18 Depois disto, houve ainda, em Gobe, outra peleja contra os filisteus; então, Sibecai, o husatita, feriu a Safe, que era descendente dos gigantes. 19 Houve ainda, em Gobe, outra peleja contra os filisteus; e Elanã, filho de Jaaré-Oregim, o belemita, feriu a Golias, o geteu, cuja lança tinha a haste como eixo de tecelão. 20 Houve ainda outra peleja; esta foi em Gate, onde estava um homem de grande estatura, que tinha em cada mão e em cada pé seis dedos, vinte e quatro ao todo; também este descendia dos gigantes. 21 Quando ele injuriava a Israel, Jônatas, filho de Simeia, irmão de Davi, o feriu. 22 Estes quatro nasceram dos gigantes em Gate; e caíram pela mão de Davi e pela mão de seus homens.

1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired 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 to 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 to them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)

3 Why David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and with which shall I make the atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?

4 And the Gibeonites said to him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shall you kill any man in Israel. And he said, What you 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 to us, and we will hang them up to 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' 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 bore to 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 on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped on 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 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 And he brought up from there 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 sepulcher of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was entreated 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 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.

17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you 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 Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver' 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 Shimeah 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.