1 There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, "It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death."

2 The king called the Gibeonites and said to 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 to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah); 3 and David said to the Gibeonites, "What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless Yahweh’s inheritance?"

4 The Gibeonites said to him, "It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel."

He said, "I will do for you whatever you say."

5 They said to the king, "The man who consumed us and who plotted against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel, 6 let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh."

The king said, "I will give them."

7 But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. 8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. 9 He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites; and they hanged them on the mountain before Yahweh, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.

10 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night. 11 David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. 12 So David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa; 13 and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son. They also gathered the bones of those who were hanged. 14 They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father; and they performed all that the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer for the land.

15 The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint; 16 and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of bronze in weight, he being armed with a new sword, thought he would kill David. 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, "Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel."

18 After this, there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant. 19 There was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite’s brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. 20 There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on every hand and six toes on every foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was born to the giant. 21 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him. 22 These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

1 大卫在位的日子， 有连续三年的饥荒； 大卫就寻求耶和华的面。耶和华说： "这是因为扫罗和扫罗家流人血的罪， 因为他曾经杀死了基遍人。"

2 原来基遍人不是以色列人， 而是亚摩利人中余剩的后人。以色列人曾经起誓与他们立约， 但扫罗却为以色列人和犹大人发热心， 设法要击杀他们。王把基遍人召了来， 对他们说话。

3 大卫问基遍人： "我能为你们作什么？我该用什么来赎罪， 使你们为耶和华的产业祝福呢？"

4 基遍人回答大卫： "我们与扫罗和他家的事， 都与金子银子没有关系； 我们也不愿以色列中有一个人被杀。"大卫问： "那么， 你们说， 我当为你们作什么？"

5 他们回答王： "从前破坏我们， 谋害我们， 要消灭我们， 使我们不能在以色列境内立足的那人，

6 现在请你把他子孙中的七个男丁交给我们， 我们可以在基遍耶和华的山上， 在耶和华面前把他们处决。"王说： "我必交给你们。"

7 王顾惜扫罗的孙子、约拿单的儿子米非波设， 因为大卫与扫罗的儿子约拿单， 曾经在耶和华面前有过誓约。

8 于是王逮捕了爱雅的女儿利斯巴为扫罗所生的两个儿子： 亚摩尼和米非波设， 和扫罗的女儿米拉为米何拉人巴西莱的儿子亚得列所生的五个儿子，

9 把他们交在基遍人的手里。基遍人就在山上耶和华面前把他们处决， 这七人就一同倒毙了。他们被处死的时候， 正是收获季节之初， 就是开始收割大麦的时候。

10 爱雅的女儿利斯巴拿了一块麻布， 为自己铺在磐石上。从开始收割的时候， 直到雨水从天上倾倒在他们的尸身上的时候， 白天她不让空中的飞鸟落在尸身上， 夜间不让田间的走兽来糟践他们。

11 有人把扫罗的妃子， 爱雅的女儿利斯巴所作的这事告诉了大卫，

12 大卫就去把扫罗的骸骨和他儿子约拿单的骸骨， 从基列．雅比人那里搬回来。原来非利士人从前在基利波山击杀扫罗那一天， 就把他们二人的尸体挂在伯．珊的广场上， 基列．雅比人却把他们偷了去。

13 大卫把扫罗和他儿子约拿单的骸骨从那里搬上来； 又有人收殓了那些被处决者的骸骨。

14 他们把扫罗和他儿子约拿单的骸骨埋葬在便雅悯地的洗拉， 在扫罗父亲基士的坟墓里。王所吩咐的一切， 众人都行了。这事以后， 神垂听了人们为那地的祷告。

15 非利士人与以色列人又有了战事。大卫和跟随他的臣仆一同下去， 要与非利士人争战； 大卫疲倦了。

16 他们住在歌伯。有一个人， 是巨人的儿子， 他的铜矛有三公斤半重， 又佩带着新刀； 他想要击杀大卫。

17 洗鲁雅的儿子亚比筛帮助了大卫； 亚比筛击打那非利士人， 把他杀死了。那时， 跟随大卫的人向他起誓说： "以后你不可再与我们一同出去打仗， 免得以色列的灯熄灭了。"

18 后来， 以色列人又在歌伯与非利士人争战。那时， 户沙人西比该击杀了巨人的一个儿子撒弗。

19 在歌伯又再与非利士人争战。伯利恒人雅雷俄珥金的儿子伊勒哈难击杀了迦特人歌利亚。这人的矛杆好像织布的机轴那么粗大。

20 在迦特又有一场战事， 那里有一个身量高大的人， 手脚都各有六个指头， 总数是二十四个； 这人也是巨人所生的。

21 这人向以色列人骂阵， 大卫的哥哥示米亚的儿子约拿单把他击杀了。

22 以上这四个人都是迦特城里那个巨人所生的， 都死在大卫和大卫臣仆的手下。