2 Samuel 21:2-9

2 Samuel 21:2-9

[2] And the king  called  the Gibeonites,  and said  unto 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  unto them: and Saul  sought  to slay  them in his zeal  to the children  of Israel  and Judah.)  [3] Wherefore David  said  unto the Gibeonites,  What shall I do  for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement,  that ye may bless  the inheritance  of the LORD?  [4] And the Gibeonites  said  unto him, We will have no silver  nor gold  of  Saul,  nor of his house;  neither for us shalt thou kill  any man  in Israel.  And he said,  that will I do  for you. [5] 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 Israel,  [6] Let seven  of his sons  be delivered  unto us, and we will hang them up  unto the LORD  in Gibeah  of Saul,  whom the LORD  did choose.  And the king  said,  I will give  them. [7] But the king  spared  Mephibosheth,  the son  of Jonathan  the son  of Saul,  because of the LORD'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 bare  unto Saul,  Armoni  and Mephibosheth;  and the five  sons  of Michal  the daughter  of Saul,  whom she brought up  for Adriel  the son  of Barzillai  the Meholathite:  [9] And he delivered  them into the hands  of the Gibeonites,  and they hanged  them in the hill  before  the LORD:  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.