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facta est quoque fames in diebus David tribus annis iugiteret consuluit David oraculum Domini dixitque Dominus propterSaul et domum eius et sanguinem quia occidit Gabaonitas

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vocatis ergo Gabaonitis rex dixit ad eos porro Gabaonitaenon sunt de filiis Israhel sed reliquiae Amorreorum filiiquippe Israhel iuraverant eis et voluit Saul percutere eos zeloquasi pro filiis Israhel et Iuda

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dixit ergo David ad Gabaonitas quid faciam vobis et quoderit vestri piaculum ut benedicatis hereditati Domini

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dixeruntque ei Gabaonitae non est nobis super argento etauro quaestio contra Saul et contra domum eius neque volumus utinterficiatur homo de Israhel ad quos ait quid ergo vultis utfaciam vobis

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qui dixerunt regi virum qui adtrivit nos et oppressitinique ita delere debemus ut ne unus quidem residuus sit destirpe eius in cunctis finibus Israhel

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dentur nobis septem viri de filiis eius et crucifigamus eosDomino in Gabaath Saul quondam electi Domini et ait rex egodabo

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pepercitque rex Mifiboseth filio Ionathan filii Saulpropter iusiurandum Domini quod fuerat inter David et interIonathan filium Saul

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tulit itaque rex duos filios Respha filiae Ahia quospeperit Saul Armoni et Mifiboseth et quinque filios Micholfiliae Saul quos genuerat Hadriheli filio Berzellai qui fuit deMolathi

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et dedit eos in manu Gabaonitarum qui crucifixerunt illosin monte coram Domino et ceciderunt hii septem simul occisi indiebus messis primis incipiente messione hordei

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tollens autem Respha filia Ahia cilicium substravit sibisuper petram ab initio messis donec stillaret aqua super eos decaelo et non dimisit aves lacerare eos per diem neque bestiasper noctem

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et nuntiata sunt David quae fecerat Respha filia Ahiaconcubina Saul

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et abiit David et tulit ossa Saul et ossa Ionathan filiieius a viris Iabesgalaad qui furati fuerant ea de plateaBethsan in qua suspenderant eos Philisthim cum interfecissentSaul in Gelboe

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et asportavit inde ossa Saul et ossa Ionathan filii eiuset colligentes ossa eorum qui adfixi fuerant

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sepelierunt ea cum ossibus Saul et Ionathan filii eius interra Beniamin in latere in sepulchro Cis patris eiusfeceruntque omnia quae praeceperat rex et repropitiatus estDeus terrae post haec

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factum est autem rursum proelium Philisthinorum adversumIsrahel et descendit David et servi eius cum eo et pugnabantcontra Philisthim deficiente autem David

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Iesbidenob qui fuit de genere Arafa cuius ferrum hastaetrecentas uncias adpendebat et accinctus erat ense novo nisusest percutere David

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praesidioque ei fuit Abisai filius Sarviae et percussumPhilistheum interfecit tunc iuraverunt viri David dicentes nonegredieris nobiscum in bellum ne extinguas lucernam Israhel

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secundum quoque fuit bellum in Gob contra Philistheos tuncpercussit Sobbochai de Usathi Seph de stirpe Arafa

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tertium quoque fuit bellum in Gob contra Philistheos inquo percussit Adeodatus filius Saltus polymitarius bethleemitesGoliath Gettheum cuius hastile hastae erat quasi liciatoriumtexentium

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quartum bellum fuit in Geth in quo vir excelsus qui senosin manibus pedibusque habebat digitos id est viginti etquattuor et erat de origine Arafa

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blasphemavit Israhel percussit autem eum Ionathan filiusSammaa fratris David

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hii quattuor nati sunt de Arafa in Geth et ceciderunt inmanu David et servorum eius

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021:001
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.

021:002
And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto 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 unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)

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Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?

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And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.

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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,

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Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.

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But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

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But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto 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:

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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.

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And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon 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.

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And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

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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:

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And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

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And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.

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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.

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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.

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But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.

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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.

021:019
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's beam.

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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.

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And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimeah the brother of David slew him.

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These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

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