And there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year following year, and David sought the face of the Lord, and the Lord said, concerning Saul and concerning his house, there is bloodguilt because he put the Gibeonites to death.
And King David called the Gibeonites and said to them. And the Gibeonites are not sons of Israel, but rather from the remnant of the Amorite, and the sons of Israel swore to them. And Saul sought to strike them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah.
And the Gibeonites said to him, There is not for us silver and gold with Saul and with his house, and there is not for us a man to put to death in Israel. And he said, What do you say that I should do for you?
And they said to the king, The man consumed us and pursued us, who plotted to destroy us; let us utterly destroy him, so that he may not stand in any border of Israel.
Let seven men from his sons be given to us, and let us hang them up to the Lord in Gibeon of Saul, the chosen of the Lord. And the king said, I will give.
And the king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan son of Saul because of the oath of the Lord that was between them, between David and between Jonathan son of Saul
And the king took the two sons of Respha daughter of Aia, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the five sons of Michol daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Esriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite
And he gave them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they impaled them on the mountain before the Lord, and the seven of them fell together, and they were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of the barley harvest.
And Respha, daughter of Aia, took the sackcloth and fixed it for herself beside the rock, at the beginning of the barley harvest until water was poured upon them from heaven, and she did not let the birds of the heaven rest upon them by day, nor the wild beasts of the field by night.
And it was reported to David what Respha daughter of Aia, Saul’s concubine, had done, and they were loosed, and Dan son of Joa from among the descendants of the giants overtook them
And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men, the sons of Jabesh-gilead, who stole them from the square of Beth-shan, because the Philistines had set them there on the day when the Philistines struck Saul in Gilboa.
And they buried the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son and of those who had been exposed in the land of Benjamin in the side, in the tomb of Kish his father, and they did all that the king had commanded, and God listened to the land afterward.
And there was again war with the Philistines with Israel, and David went down, and his servants with him, and they fought with the Philistines, and David was worn out
And Jesbi, who was among the descendants of Rapha, and the weight of his spear was three hundred shekels of bronze by weight, and he himself was girded with a club and was intending to strike David
And Abessa son of Saruia helped him and struck the foreigner and killed him. Then the men of David swore, saying, You shall not go out with us anymore into battle, and you shall not extinguish the lamp of Israel.
And after these things there was again war in Gath with the Philistines; then Sibbekai the Hushathite struck Shaph, who was among the descendants of Rapha.
And there was war in Gob with the Philistines, and Eleanan son of Ariorgim the Bethlehemite struck Goliath the Gittite, and the shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam.
And there was again war in Gath, and there was a man of Madon, and the fingers of his hands and the fingers of his feet were six and six—twenty-four in number; and he also himself was born to Rapha.