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OET-RV by cross-referenced section 2SA 21:1

2SA 21:1–21:14 ©

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The Gibeonites’ claim on Sha’ul’s descendants

2Sa 21:1–14

21:1 The Gibeonites’ claim on Sha’ul’s descendants

21During David’s reign, there was a three-year famine. David inquired from Yahweh who said, “Sha’ul and his family have blood on their hands, because he killed the Gibeonites.” 2(The Gibeonites were not native Israelis, but were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelis had promised to protect them, but Sha’ul had attempted to eliminate them in his zeal for the people of Israel and Yehudah.) So the king summoned the Gibeonites and asked them,[ref] 3“What can I do for all of you? How can I remedy what was done in the past so that you all would bless Yahweh’s people?”

4We have no claim to gold or silver from Sha’ul or his household,” the Gibeonites replied, “And we don’t wish to have anyone in Israel put to death.”

Then what are you saying that I can do for you all?” he asked.

5“That man who crushed us,” they replied, “and who intended that we be annihilated from within Israel’s borders, 6give us seven of his descendants and we’ll hang them before Yahweh in Gibeah where Yahweh’s chosen king Sha’ul lived.

Okay, I’ll give them to you,” the king responded.

7However, the king spared Yonatan’s son (and Sha’ul’s grandson) Mefiboshet because of the promises that he and Yonatan had made to each other before Yahweh.[ref] 8Instead he took two of the sons (Armoni and Mefiboshet) of Ritsfah (Ayyah’s daughter and one of Sha’ul’s slave-wives), as well as five sons of Sha’ul’s daughter Michal, that she’d bore to Adriel (the son of Barzillai, the Meholatite).[ref] 9He handed them over to the Gibeonites, and they hung them on a hill before Yahweh, and the seven of them died together. This happened at the beginning of the barley harvest.

10Then Ayyah’s daughter Ritsfah took sackcloth and she spread it on the rock where the corpses were. She kept the birds away during the day and the animals at nightstaying there from the beginning of the harvest until the beginning of the rainy season.

11David was told what Ritsfah had done, 12and he went and got the bones of Sha’ul and his son Yonatan from the leaders of Yabesh-Gilead, who had stolen them from the square of Beyt-Shan where the Philistines had hung them there on the day the Philistines had defeated Sha’ul at Gilboa.[ref] 13David took Sha’ul and Yonatan’s bones along with the bones of the seven men who’d been hung, 14and his men buried them in the tomb of Sha’ul’s father Kish in Zela (in the Benyamite region), doing everything that the king had commanded. After that, God answered their prayers for the country.


Collected OET-RV cross-references

Josh 9:3-15:

3However, when the people who live in Gibeon heard what Yehoshua had done to Yericho and Ay, 4they decided to use cunning instead. They found old, worn-out sacks to throw over their donkeys and old, worn-out wineskins that had been torn and mended, then sent men to act as ambassadors. 5They found worn-out sandals that had been patched, and wore worn-out clothes. All the food that they took for the journey was already dry and disintegrating into crumbs. 6They went to Yehoshua in the camp at Gilgal and told him, “We’ve come from a far-off land and want you to make a treaty with us.”

7An Israeli man asked the Hivite (because Gilead was in the Hivite region), “Perhaps you really live near by? How could we make a treaty with you?”[ref]

8They addressed Yehoshua, “We are your servants.”

Yehoshua asked them, “Who are you? And where have you come from?”

9“Your servants have come from a very distant land,” they replied, “because of the reputation of your God, Yahweh. We’ve heard the reports about him and everything that he did in Egypt, 10and everything that he did to the two Amorite kings on the other side of the Yordan—King Sihon of Heshbon, and King Og of the Bashan who lived in Ashtaroth.[ref] 11So our elders and all those who live in our area instructed us, ‘Take provisions for the journey and go to meet them, and tell them, “We are your servants. Now make a treaty with us.” ’ 12This bread of ours was warm from our ovens when we loaded it for our journey, and now, look, it’s all dry and crumbling. 13And these wineskins were new when we filled them, and look, now they’re all torn. Same with our clothes and our sandals—they’re all worn-out from the very long journey.”

14The Israeli leaders tasted some of their provisions, but they didn’t ask Yahweh for advice. 15So Yehoshua agreed to make peace with them, and they made a treaty not to attack their people, and all the Israeli leaders promised that.


9:7: Exo 23:32; 34:12; Deu 7:2.

9:10: Num 21:21-35.

1Sam 20:15-17:

15Don’t ever terminate that agreement of faithfulness towards my family, even when Yahweh destroys your enemies wherever they are.[ref] 16So Yonatan made a multi-generational agreement with David, adding, “And may Yahweh punish David’s enemies.”

17Then Yonatan got David to promise again because he loved him as much as he loved his own life,


20:15: 2Sam 9:1.

2Sam 9:1-7:

9:1 David assists Mefiboshet

9One day David asked, “Is there still anyone remaining from Sha’ul’s extended family because I’d like to show kindness to them for Yonatan’s sake?”[ref]

2Now there was a servant in Sha’ul household named Tsiva and he was summoned to David, and the king asked him, “Are you Tsiva?”

Yes, I’m your servant,” he replied.

3“Is there anyone from Sha’ul’s family who’s still alive?” the king asked. “If so, I’d like to show God’s kindness to them.”[ref]

Yes, There’s still one of Yonatan’s sons alive,” Tsiva told the king. “He’s crippled in both legs.”

4“Where is he?” the king asked.

Actually,” Tsiva told the king, “he’s at Makir’s house—the son of Ammiel in Lo-Debar.” 5So King David sent messengers to Lo-Debar to have him brought to Yerushalem.

6Then Yonatan’s son Mefiboshet came to David and fell onto his knees and bowed his face down to the ground, and David said, Mefiboshet.”

“I’m your servant,” he replied.

7Then David told him, “Don’t be afraid, because I’ll certainly show you kindness for the sake of your father Yonatan. I’ll restore all the pastureland that belonged to your grandfather Sha’ul, and you yourself are invited to always eat at my table.”


9:1: 1Sam 20:15-17.

9:3: 2Sam 4:4.

1Sam 18:19:

19However, when it was the time for Sha’ul to give his daughter Merab to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite to marry.

1Sam 31:8-13:

8The next day when the Philistines came to strip anything valuable from the bodies, they found the bodies of Sha’ul and his three sons there on Mt. Gilboa. 9They cut off the king’s head and took all his gear. Then they sent messengers all around the Philistine region to spread their good news to the temples of their idols and to all their people. 10They Sha’ul’s armour and weapons in the temple of the Ashtorets, and hung his body on the Beyt-Shan city wall.

11When the residents of Yabesh-Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul’s body, 12all their warriors walked all night to take Sha’ul’s body and those of his sons, off the wall at Beyt-Shan. They took them back to Yabesh and burnt them there. 13Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Yabesh, and fasted for seven days.