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2 Samuel 21:1-2, 7

2 Samuel 21:1-2 CSB

During David’s reign there was a famine for three successive years, so David inquired  of the LORD. The LORD answered, “It is due to Saul and to his bloody family, because he killed the Gibeonites.” The Gibeonites were not Israelites but rather a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them,  but Saul had tried to kill them in his zeal for the Israelites and Judah. So David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them.

2 Samuel 21:7 CSB

David spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul’s son Jonathan, because of the oath of the LORD that was between David and Jonathan, Saul’s son.

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