THEN there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of Yahuah. And Yahuah answered, It is for El-Sha'ul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Giv'oniym.
And the king called the Giv'oniym, and said unto them; (now the Giv'oniym were not of the children of Yashar'el, but of the remnant of the Emoriym; and the children of Yashar'el had sworn unto them: and Sha'ul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Yashar'el and Yahudah.)
Wherefore David said unto the Giv'oniym, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of Yahuah?
And the Giv'oniym said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Sha'ul, nor of his house; neither for us shall you kill any man in Yashar'el. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.
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 Yashar'el,
Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto Yahuah in Giv'ah of Sha'ul, whom Yahuah did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
But the king spared Mephiyvosheth, the son of Yahunathan the son of Sha'ul, because of Yahuah's oath that was between them, between David and Yahunathan the son of Sha'ul.
But the king took the two sons of Ritspah the daughter of Ayah, whom she bore unto Sha'ul, Armoniy and Mephiyvosheth; and the five sons of Miykal the daughter of Sha'ul, whom she brought up for Adriy'el the son of Barzillai the Mecholathiy:
And he delivered them into the hands of the Giv'oniym, and they hanged them in the hill before Yahuah: 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.
And Ritspah the daughter of Ayah took the 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.
And it was told David את what Ritspah the daughter of Ayah, the concubine of Sha'ul, had done.
And David went and took the bones of Sha'ul and the bones of Yahunathan his son from the men of Yaveysh Gil'ad, which had stolen them from the street of Beyt Sha'an, where the Pelishtiym had hanged them, when the Pelishtiym had slain Sha'ul in Gilboa:
And he brought up from thence the bones of Sha'ul and the bones of Yahunathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
And the bones of Sha'ul and Yahunathan his son buried they in the country of Binyamiyn in Tsela, in the sepulchre of Qiysh his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that Elohiym was intreated for the land.
Moreover the Pelishtiym had yet war again with Yashar'el; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Pelishtiym: and David waxed faint.
And Yishvu Ve-Nov, which was of the sons of the Repha'iy, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred sheqels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.
But Aviyshai the son of Tseruyah helped him, and smote the Pelishtiy, and killed him. Then the men of David swore unto him, saying, You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you quench not the light of Yashar'el.
And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Pelishtiym at Gov: then Cibbekai the Chushathiy slew Caph, which was of the sons of the Repha'iy.
And there was again a battle in Gov with the Pelishtiym, where Elchanan the son of Ya`arey Oregiym, a Beyt Hal-Lachmiy, slew את the brother of Golyath the Gittiy, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
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 Repha'iy.
And when he defied Yashar'el, Yahunathan the son of Shim'iy the brother of David slew him.
These four were born to the Repha'iy in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.