Sauls seuen sonnes hanged.

1   Then there was a famine in the dayes of Dauid, three yeeres ^note together: and Dauid ^note asked counsell of the Lorde, and the Lorde answered, It is for Saul, & for his bloodie house, because hee slewe the ^note Gibeonites.

2   Then þe; King called the Gibeonites and said vnto them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but ^note a remnant of the Amorites, vnto whom þe; children of Israel had sworne: but Saul sought to slay them for his zeale toward the children of Israel and Iudah)

3   And Dauid said vnto the Gibeonites, ^note What shall I doe for you, and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may blesse the inheritance of the Lord?

4   The Gibeonites then answered him, Wee will haue no siluer nor golde of Saul nor of his house, neither for vs shalt thou kill ^note any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I doe for you.

5   Then they answered the King, The man that consumed vs and that imagined euill against vs, so that we are destroyed from remaining in any coast of Israel,

6   Let seuen men of his ^note sonnes be deliuered vnto vs, and we will hang them vp ^note vnto the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, the Lordes chosen. And the King said, I will giue them.

7   But the King had compassion on Mephibosheth the sonne of Ionathan the sonne of Saul, because of the ^note Lordes othe, that was betweene them, euen betweene Dauid and Ionathan the sonne of Saul.

8   But the King tooke the two sonnes of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whome shee bare vnto Saul, euen Armoni & Mephibosheth and the fiue sonnes of ^note Michal, the daughter of Saul, whome shee bare to Adriel the sonne of Barzillai the Meholathite.

9   And hee deliuered them vnto the handes of the Gibeonites, which hanged them in the mountaine before the Lord: so they ^note died all seuen together, and they were slaine in the time of haruest: in the ^note first dayes, and in the beginning of barly haruest.

10   Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah tooke ^note sackecloth and hanged it vp for her vpon the rocke, from the beginning of haruest, vntill ^note water dropped vpon them from the heauen, and suffered neither the birdes of the aire to ^note light on th&ebar; by day, nor beasts of the fielde by night.

11   ¶2; And it was told Dauid, what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah þe; concubine of Saul had done.

12   And Dauid went and tooke the bones of Saul and the bones of Ionathan his sonne from the citizens of Iabesh Gilead, which had stollen them from the streete of Beth-shan, where the Philistims had ^note hanged them, when the Philistims had slaine Saul in Gilboa.

13   So hee brought thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Ionathan his sonne, and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

14   And the bones of Saul and of Ionathan his sonne buried they in the co&ubar;trey of Beniamin in Zelah, in the graue of Kish his father: and when they had perfourmed all that the King had commaunded, God was then ^note appeased with the land.

15   ¶2; Againe the Philistims had warre with Israel: and Dauid went downe, and his seruants Dauids victories: His song. with him, and they fought against the Philistims, and Dauid fainted.

16   Then Ishi-benob which was of the sonnes of ^note Haraphah (the head of whose speare wayed three hundreth ^note shekels of brasse) euen he being girded with a newe sword, thought to haue slaine Dauid.

17   But Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistim, and killed him. Then Dauids men sware vnto him, saying, Thou shalt goe no more out with vs to battell, lest thou quench the ^note light of Israel.

18   ¶2; And after this also there was a battell with the Philistims at ^note Gob, then Sibbechai the Hushathite slewe Saph, which was one of þe; sonnes of Haraphah.

19   And there was yet another battel in Gob with the Philistims, where Elhanah the sonne of Iaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite slewe ^note Goliath the Gittite: the staffe of whose speare was like a weauers beame.

20   Afterward there was also a battel in Gath, where was a man of a great stature, and had on euerie hand sixe fingers, and on euerie foote sixe toes, foure and twentie in nomber: who was also the sonne of Haraphah.

21   And when hee reuiled Israel, Ionathan the sonne of ^note Shima the brother of Dauid slewe him.

22   These foure were borne to Haraphah in Gath, and died by the hande of Dauid and by the hands of his seruants.

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