1 Thre deare yeres. 9 The vengeance of the sinnes of Saúl lighteth on his seuē sonnes, which are hāged. 15 Foure great battels, which Dauid had against the Philistims.
2.Then the King called the Gibeonites, & said vnto thē (Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israél, but a remnant of the Amorites, vnto whome the children of Israél had sworne: but Saúl soght
3.And Dauid said vnto the Gibeonites, What shal I do for you, and wherewith shal I make the atonement, that ye may blesse the inheritance of the Lord?
4.The Gibeonites then answered him, We wil haue no siluer nor gold of Saúl nor of his house, nether for vs shalt thou kile anie man in Israél. And he said, What ye shal say, that wil I do for you.
5.Then they answered the King, The man that consumed vs and that imagined euil against vs, so that we are destroyed from remaining in anie coste of Israél,
6.Let seuen men of his d sonnes be deliuered vnto vs, and we wil hang them vp e vnto the Lord in Gibéah of Saúl, the Lords chosen. And the King said, I wil giue them.
7.But the King had compassion on Mephibósheth the sone of Ionathán the sonne of Saúl, because of the * Lords othe, that was betwene them, euen betwene Dauid and Ionathan the sonne of Saúl.
8.But the King toke the two sonnes of Rizpáh the daughter of Aiáh, whome she bare vnto Saúl, euen Armoní & Mephibósheth and the fiue sonnes of f Michál, the daughter of Saúl, whome she bare to Adriél the sonne of Barzillái the Meholathite.
9.And he deliuered them vnto the hands of the Gibeonites, which hāged them in the moutaine before the Lord: so they u dyed all seuen together, and they were slaine in the time of haruest: in the g first dayes, & in the beginning of barly haruest.
10.Then Rizpáh the daughter of Aiáh toke h sackcloth & hādged it vp for her vpō the rocke, from the beginning of haruest, vntil i water dropped vpon them from the heauen, and suffred nether the birdes of the aire to light on them by day, nor beastes of the field by night.
11.¶ And it was tolde Dauid, what Rizpáh the daughter of Aiáh the concubine of Saúl had done.
12.And Dauid went and toke the bones of Saúl and the bones of Ionathán his sonne from the citizens of Iabésh Gileád, which had stollen them from the strete of Bethshán, where the Philistims had * handged them, when the Philistims had slaine Saúl in Gilbóa.
13.So he broght thence the bones of Saúl and the bones of Ionathán his sonne, and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
14.And the bones of Saúl and of Ionathán his sonne buryed they in the countrei of Beniamin in Zeláh, in the graue of Kish his father: and when they had performed all that the King had commanded, God was then k appeased with the land.
15.¶ Againe the Philistims had warre with Israél: and Dauid went downe, and his seruants with him, and they foght against the Philistims, and Dauid fainted.
16.Thēn Ishbi benób which was of the sonnes of l Harapháh (the head of whose m speare wayed thre hundreth shekels of brasse) euē he being girded with a newe sword, thoght to haue slaine Dauid.
17.But Abishái the sonne of Zeruiáh succoured him, and smote the Philistim, and killed him. Then Dauids men sware vnto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with vs to battel, lest thou quenche the n light of Israél.
18.¶ And after this also there was a battel with the Philistims at o Gob, then Sibbechái the Hushathite slewe Saph, which was one of the sonnes of Harapháh.
19.And there was yet another battel in Gob with the Philistims, where Elhanán the sonne of Iaare-oregím, a Bethlehemite q flewe p Goliáth the Gittite: the staffe of whose speare was like a weauers beame.
20.Afterwarde there was also a battel in Gath, where was a man of a great stature, and had on euerie hand six fingers, and on euerie foote six toes, foure and twentie in nomber: who was also the sonne of Harapháh.
21.And when he reuiled Israél, Ionathán the sonne of * Shimá the brother of Dauid slewe him.
22.These foure were borne to Harapháh in Gath, and dyed by the hand of Dauid and by the hands of his seruants.