1 Então, houve fome nos dias de Davi por três anos, ano após ano; e Davi consultou o SENHOR. E o SENHOR respondeu: É por Saul, e pela sua casa sanguinária, porque ele matou os gibeonitas.2 E o rei chamou os gibeonitas, e disse a eles: (Ora, os gibeonitas não eram dos filhos de Israel, mas dos remanescentes dos amorreus; e os filhos de Israel haviam jurado a eles; e Saul procurou matá-los no seu zelo pelos filhos de Israel e Judá.)3 Por conseguinte, Davi disse aos gibeonitas: O que farei por vós? E com que farei a expiação, para que possais abençoar a herança do SENHOR?4 E os gibeonitas disseram a ele: Não queremos ter nem prata, nem ouro de Saul, nem da sua casa; tampouco por nós matarás qualquer homem em Israel. E ele disse: O que vós disserdes, isto farei por vós.5 E eles responderam: O homem que nos consumiu, e que maquinou contra nós para que fôssemos destruídos e não restássemos em nenhum dos limites de Israel,6 que sete homens dos seus filhos sejam entregues a nós, e nós os enforcaremos para o SENHOR em Gibeá de Saul, a quem o SENHOR escolheu. E o rei disse: Dá-los-ei.7 O rei, porém, poupou Mefibosete, o filho de Jônatas, o filho de Saul, por causa do juramento do SENHOR que havia entre eles, entre Davi e Jônatas, o filho de Saul.8 O rei, no entanto, tomou os dois filhos de Rispa, a filha de Aiá, os quais ela deu a Saul, Armoni e Mefibosete; e os cinco filhos de Mical, a filha de Saul, quem ela criou para Adriel, o filho de Barzilai, o meolatita;9 e ele os entregou nas mãos dos gibeonitas, e eles os enforcaram no outeiro diante do SENHOR; e eles caíram, todos os sete juntos, e foram levados à morte nos dias da colheita, nos primeiros dias, no início da colheita da cevada.10 E Rispa, a filha de Aiá, tomou pano de saco, e o espalhou para si sobre a rocha, desde o início da colheita até que a água caiu sobre eles do céu, e não deixou que viessem sobre eles nem as aves do céu de dia, nem os animais do campo à noite.11 E disseram a Davi o que Rispa, a filha de Aiá, a concubina de Saul, havia feito.12 E Davi foi e pegou os ossos de Saul e os ossos de Jônatas, seu filho, dos homens de Jabes-Gileade, os quais os haviam roubado da rua de Bete-Seã, onde os filisteus os haviam pendurado, quando os filisteus mataram Saul em Gilboa;13 e ele fez subir de lá os ossos de Saul e os ossos de Jônatas, seu filho; e eles reuniram os ossos daqueles que foram pendurados.14 E os ossos de Saul e Jônatas, seu filho, enterraram na região de Benjamim em Zela, no sepulcro de Quis, seu pai; e eles executaram tudo o que o rei ordenou. E depois disso, rogaram a Deus pela terra.15 Além disso, os filisteus ainda fizeram guerra contra Israel; e Davi desceu, e com ele os seus servos, e lutou contra os filisteus; e Davi ficou fatigado.16 E Isbi-Benobe, que era um dos filhos do gigante, cuja lança pesava trezentos shekels de bronze em peso, estando ele cingido com uma espada nova, pensou ter matado Davi.17 Todavia, Abisai, o filho de Zeruia, socorreu-o, e feriu o filisteu, e o matou. Então, os homens de Davi juraram a ele, dizendo: Tu não sairás mais conosco à batalha, para que não extingas a luz de Israel.18 E sucedeu, depois disso, que houve novamente uma batalha com os filisteus em Gobe; então Sibecai, o husatita, matou Safe, o qual era dos filhos dos gigantes.19 E houve novamente batalha em Gobe com os filisteus, onde Elanã, o filho de Jaaré-Oregim, um belemita, matou o irmão de Golias, o geteu, de cuja lança a vara era como um eixo de tecelão.20 E ainda houve uma batalha em Gate, onde havia um homem de grande estatura, que tinha seis dedos em cada mão, e seis dedos em cada pé, vinte e quatro em número; e ele também nasceu dos gigantes.21 E quando ele desafiou Israel, Jônatas, o filho de Simeia, irmão de Davi, o matou.22 Esses quatro nasceram dos gigantes em Gate, e caíram pela mão de Davi, e pela mão dos seus servos.

1 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David besought the face of Jehovah. And Jehovah answered, It is because of Saul and his bloody house, because he had killed the Gibeonites.2 So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites. The children of Israel had sworn peace to them, but Saul had sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah.)3 Therefore David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of Jehovah?4 And the Gibeonites said to him, We will have no silver or gold from Saul or from his house, nor shall you kill any man in Israel for us. So he said, Whatever you say, I will do for you.5 And they answered the king, As for the man who destroyed us and plotted against us, that we should be annihilated from remaining in any of the territories of Israel,6 let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them before Jehovah in Gibeah of Saul, whom Jehovah chose. And the king said, I will deliver them.7 But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath of Jehovah that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.8 So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she had borne to Saul; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;9 and he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before Jehovah. So they fell, all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.10 Now Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until the waters poured on them from the heavens. And she did not allow the birds of the heavens to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.11 And David was told 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 town square of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hung them up, after the Philistines had struck down Saul in Gilboa.13 And he brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there; and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.14 And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin in Zelah, in the tomb of Kish his father. Thus they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was entreated for the land.15 And the Philistines were at war again with Israel. And David and his servants with him went down and fought against the Philistines; and David grew faint.16 And Ishbi-Benob, who was of the sons of the giants, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of bronze, who was bearing a new sword, intended to kill David.17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, You shall go out no more with us to battle, that you not quench the lamp of Israel.18 And it happened after this that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbechai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giants.19 Again there was war at Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed one from Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.20 Yet again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also was born to the giants.21 And when he reproached Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David’s brother, killed him.22 These four were born to the giants in Gath, and fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.