1 In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.
2 Then the king sent for the Gibeonites; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but were the last of the Amorites, to whom the children of Israel had given an oath; but Saul, in his passion for the children of Israel and Judah, had made an attempt on their lives:)
3 So David said to the Gibeonites, What may I do for you? how am I to make up to you for your wrongs, so that you may give a blessing to the heritage of the Lord?
4 And the Gibeonites said to him, It is not a question of silver and gold between us and Saul or his family; and it is not in our power to put to death any man in Israel. And he said, Say, then, what am I to do for you?
5 And they said to the king, As for the man by whom we were wasted, and who made designs against us to have us completely cut off from the land of Israel,
6 Let seven men of his family be given up to us and we will put an end to them by hanging them before the Lord in Gibeon, on the hill of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them.
7 But the king did not give up Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the Lord's oath made between David and Jonathan, the son of Saul.
8 But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Saul to whom Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, had given birth; and the five sons of Saul's daughter Merab, whose father was Adriel, the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
9 And he gave them up to the Gibeonites, and they put them to death, hanging them on the mountain before the Lord; all seven came to their end together in the first days of the grain-cutting, at the start of the cutting of the barley.
10 And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took haircloth, placing it on the rock as a bed for herself, from the start of the grain-cutting till rain came down on them from heaven; and she did not let the birds of the air come near them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.
11 And news was given to David of what Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, one of Saul's wives, had done.
12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had taken them away secretly from the public place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had put them, hanging up the bodies there on the day when they put Saul to death in Gilboa:
13 And he took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from that place; and they got together the bones of those who had been put to death by hanging.
14 And they put them with the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the resting-place of Kish, his father, in Zela in the country of Benjamin; they did all the king had given them orders to do. And after that, God gave ear to their prayers for the land.
15 And the Philistines went to war again with Israel; and David went down with his people, and while they were at Gob they had a fight with the Philistines:
16 And there came against David one of the offspring of the Rephaim, whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, and having a new sword, he made an attempt to put David to death.
17 But Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, came to his help, and, turning on the Philistine, gave him his death-blow. Then David's men took an oath, and said, Never again are you to go out with us to the fight, so that you may not put out the light of Israel.
18 Now after this there was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Sibbecai the Hushathite put to death Saph, one of the offspring of the Rephaim.
19 And again there was war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan, the son of Jair the Beth-lehemite, put to death Goliath the Gittite, the stem of whose spear was like a cloth-worker's rod.
20 And again there was war at Gath, where there was a very tall man, who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six fingers on his hands and six toes on his feet; he was one of the offspring of the Rephaim.
21 And when he was purposing to put shame on Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimei, David's brother, put him to death.
22 These four were of the offspring of the Rephaim in Gath; and they came to their end by the hands of David and his servants.
1 大卫在位的日子， 有连续三年的饥荒； 大卫就寻求耶和华的面。耶和华说： "这是因为扫罗和扫罗家流人血的罪， 因为他曾经杀死了基遍人。"
2 原来基遍人不是以色列人， 而是亚摩利人中余剩的后人。以色列人曾经起誓与他们立约， 但扫罗却为以色列人和犹大人发热心， 设法要击杀他们。王把基遍人召了来， 对他们说话。
3 大卫问基遍人： "我能为你们作什么？我该用什么来赎罪， 使你们为耶和华的产业祝福呢？"
4 基遍人回答大卫： "我们与扫罗和他家的事， 都与金子银子没有关系； 我们也不愿以色列中有一个人被杀。"大卫问： "那么， 你们说， 我当为你们作什么？"
5 他们回答王： "从前破坏我们， 谋害我们， 要消灭我们， 使我们不能在以色列境内立足的那人，
6 现在请你把他子孙中的七个男丁交给我们， 我们可以在基遍耶和华的山上， 在耶和华面前把他们处决。"王说： "我必交给你们。"
7 王顾惜扫罗的孙子、约拿单的儿子米非波设， 因为大卫与扫罗的儿子约拿单， 曾经在耶和华面前有过誓约。
8 于是王逮捕了爱雅的女儿利斯巴为扫罗所生的两个儿子： 亚摩尼和米非波设， 和扫罗的女儿米拉为米何拉人巴西莱的儿子亚得列所生的五个儿子，
9 把他们交在基遍人的手里。基遍人就在山上耶和华面前把他们处决， 这七人就一同倒毙了。他们被处死的时候， 正是收获季节之初， 就是开始收割大麦的时候。
10 爱雅的女儿利斯巴拿了一块麻布， 为自己铺在磐石上。从开始收割的时候， 直到雨水从天上倾倒在他们的尸身上的时候， 白天她不让空中的飞鸟落在尸身上， 夜间不让田间的走兽来糟践他们。
11 有人把扫罗的妃子， 爱雅的女儿利斯巴所作的这事告诉了大卫，
12 大卫就去把扫罗的骸骨和他儿子约拿单的骸骨， 从基列．雅比人那里搬回来。原来非利士人从前在基利波山击杀扫罗那一天， 就把他们二人的尸体挂在伯．珊的广场上， 基列．雅比人却把他们偷了去。
13 大卫把扫罗和他儿子约拿单的骸骨从那里搬上来； 又有人收殓了那些被处决者的骸骨。
14 他们把扫罗和他儿子约拿单的骸骨埋葬在便雅悯地的洗拉， 在扫罗父亲基士的坟墓里。王所吩咐的一切， 众人都行了。这事以后， 神垂听了人们为那地的祷告。
15 非利士人与以色列人又有了战事。大卫和跟随他的臣仆一同下去， 要与非利士人争战； 大卫疲倦了。
16 他们住在歌伯。有一个人， 是巨人的儿子， 他的铜矛有三公斤半重， 又佩带着新刀； 他想要击杀大卫。
17 洗鲁雅的儿子亚比筛帮助了大卫； 亚比筛击打那非利士人， 把他杀死了。那时， 跟随大卫的人向他起誓说： "以后你不可再与我们一同出去打仗， 免得以色列的灯熄灭了。"
18 后来， 以色列人又在歌伯与非利士人争战。那时， 户沙人西比该击杀了巨人的一个儿子撒弗。
19 在歌伯又再与非利士人争战。伯利恒人雅雷俄珥金的儿子伊勒哈难击杀了迦特人歌利亚。这人的矛杆好像织布的机轴那么粗大。
20 在迦特又有一场战事， 那里有一个身量高大的人， 手脚都各有六个指头， 总数是二十四个； 这人也是巨人所生的。
21 这人向以色列人骂阵， 大卫的哥哥示米亚的儿子约拿单把他击杀了。
22 以上这四个人都是迦特城里那个巨人所生的， 都死在大卫和大卫臣仆的手下。