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There was famine during the reign of David for three consecutive years and David consulted Yahweh. The answer was, "There is bloodguilt on Saul and his family because he put the Gibeonites to death." (2 Samuel 21, 1)
The Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel but descendants of the Amorites. Although the Israelites had sworn to spare them, Saul had attempted to wipe them out on behalf of the people of Israel and Judah. (2 Samuel 21, 2)
The Gibeonites answered him, "Our quarrel with Saul and his family is not over silver or gold, nor is it our task to put any Israelite to death." The king asked again, "Tell me then what I shall do for you"; (2 Samuel 21, 4)
David spared Mepibaal, son of Jonathan, Saul's son, because of the oath David and Jonathan took before Yahweh. (2 Samuel 21, 7)
But he took the two sons of Rizpah, daughter of Aiah whom she bore to Saul - Armoni and Mepibaal; and the five sons of Merab, daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel, son of Barzillai the Meholathite. (2 Samuel 21, 8)
When David was told what Rizpah, Aiah's daughter and Saul's concubine, had done, (2 Samuel 21, 11)
he asked the men of Jabesh-gilead for the bones of Saul and those of his son Jonathan. (They had taken them from the wall of Bethshan where the Philistines had nailed them when they killed Saul on Gilboa.) (2 Samuel 21, 12)
So David had brought up from there the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan, and the bones of those who had been hanged were gathered. (2 Samuel 21, 13)
David sang this song to Yahweh on the day Yahweh delivered him from his enemies and from Saul. (2 Samuel 22, 1)
Keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and walk in his ways. Keep his statutes, his commands, his ordinances and declarations written in the law of Moses, that you may succeed in whatever you do and wherever you go. (1 Kings 2, 3)
Yahweh then asked him, 'What will you do?' To this he replied: 'I will go and make myself a lying spirit on the lips of all his prophets.' Then Yahweh said, 'You shall succeed. Go and do just that.' (1 Kings 22, 22)
When the king of Moab saw that his enemies were winning, he gathered seven hundred warriors to break through the blockade, opposite the king of Edom. But they did not succeed. (2 Kings 3, 26)
