These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Samuel 21
Tanakh 22 verses
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And there was a famine in the days of three years, year after year; and sought the of . And said: ‘It is for , and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.’
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Genesis 12:10 Numbers 27:21 Genesis 26:1 Job 5:8-10 1 Samuel 23:11 Psalm 91:15 1 Kings 18:2 Genesis 43:1 2 Samuel 5:23 Genesis 41:57 1 Kings 17:1 1 Samuel 23:4 2 Kings 8:1 Leviticus 26:26 2 Samuel 5:19 Psalm 50:15 1 Samuel 23:2 Joshua 7:1 Job 10:2 1 Samuel 22:17-19 2 Kings 6:25 Jeremiah 14:1-18 Leviticus 26:19-20 Joshua 7:11-12 - 2 And the called the Gibeonites, and said unto them—now the Gibeonites were not of the children of , but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of had sworn unto them; and sought to slay them in his zeal for the children of and —
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and said unto the Gibeonites: ‘What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make , that ye may the inheritance of ?’
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And the Gibeonites said unto him: ‘It is no matter of silver or gold between us and , or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in .’ And he said: ‘What say ye that I should do for you?’
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And they said unto the : ‘The man that consumed us, and that devised against us, so that we have been destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of ,
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- 6 let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto in Gibeah of , the chosen of .’ And the said: ‘I will deliver them.’
- 7 But the spared Mephibosheth, the son of the son of , because of Yahweh’S oath that was between them, between and the son of .
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But the took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore unto , Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of , whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;
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- 9 and he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before , and they fell all seven together; and they were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
- 10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured upon them from ; and she 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 what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of , had done.
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- 12 And went and took the bones of and the bones of his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the broad place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines slew in Gilboa;
- 13 and he brought up from thence the bones of and the bones of his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
- 14 And they buried the bones of and his son in the country of in Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish his father; and they performed all that the commanded. And after that was entreated for the land.
- 15 And the Philistines had war again with ; and went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines; and waxed faint.
- 16 And Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with new armour, thought to have slain .
- 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of swore unto him, saying: ‘Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the lamp of .’
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And it came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.
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And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
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And there was again war at Gath, where was a champion, 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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- 21 And when he taunted , the son of Shimea David’s brother slew him.
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These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of , and by the hand of his servants.
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