2 Samuel 21
21
1Then there was a famine in the days of David [beloved] three years, year after year; and David [beloved] enquired of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). And the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) answered, [It is] for Sha’ul [desired], and for [his] bloody house, because he killed the Giv’onim [little hill; hilly].
2And the king called the Giv’onim [little hill; hilly], and said unto them; (now the Giv’onim [little hill; hilly] [were] not of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], but of the remnant of the Emori [Highlanders]; and the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] had sworn unto them: and Sha’ul [desired] sought to slay them in his zeal to the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].)
3For what reason David [beloved] said unto the Giv’onim [little hill; hilly], What shall I do for you? and which shall I make the atonement, that you2f may bless the inheritance of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)?
4And the Giv’onim [little hill; hilly] said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Sha’ul [desired], nor of his house; neither for us shall youi kill any man in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]. And he said, What you2f shall say, [that] will I do for you.
5And 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 Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God],
6Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in Giv’ah [Hill] of Sha’ul [desired], [whom] the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) did choose. And the king said, I will give [them].
7But the king spared M’fivoshet [exterminating the idol], the son of Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] the son of Sha’ul [desired], because of the Lord-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] oath that [was] between them, between David [beloved] and Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] the son of Sha’ul [desired].
8But the king took the two sons of Ritzpah [pavement] the daughter of Ayah [falcon], whom she bore unto Sha’ul [desired], Armoni [one of the palace] and M’fivoshet [exterminating the idol]; and the five sons of Mikhal [who is like God?] the daughter of Sha’ul [desired], whom she brought up for Adri’el [flock of God] the son of Barzillai [my iron] the Mecholati [dancing (in sadness)]:
9And he delivered them into the hands of the Giv’onim [little hill; hilly], and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): 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.
10And Ritzpah [pavement] the daughter of Ayah [falcon] took 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.
11And it was told David [beloved] what Ritzpah [pavement] the daughter of Ayah [falcon], the concubine of Sha’ul [desired], had done.
12And David [beloved] went and took the bones of Sha’ul [desired] and the bones of Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] his son from the men of Yavesh-Gil’ad [Dry Hill of Testimony], which had stolen them from the street of Beit-Sh’an [house of ease], where the P’lishtim [Immigrants] had hanged them, when the P’lishtim [Immigrants] had slain Sha’ul [desired] in Gilboa [swollen heap]:
13And he brought up from there the bones of Sha’ul [desired] and the bones of Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
14And the bones of Sha’ul [desired] and Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] his son buried they in the country of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] in Tzela [a rib], in the sepulcher of Kish [bent] his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] was entreated for the land.
15Moreover the P’lishtim [Immigrants] had yet war again with Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; and David [beloved] went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the P’lishtim [Immigrants]: and David [beloved] waxed faint.
16And Yishbi-B’nov [his dwelling is in Nov (discourse; prophecy)], which [was] of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear [weighed] three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new [sword], thought to have slain David [beloved].
17But Avishai [my father is a gift] the son of Tz’ruyah [balsam] succored him, and struck the P’lishtim [immigrants], and killed him. Then the men of David [beloved] swore unto him, saying, youi shall go no more out with us to battle, that youi quench not the light of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
18And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the P’lishtim [Immigrants] at Gov [cistern]: then Sibkhai [weaver] the Hushati [meaning unknown] killed Saf [tall], which [was] of the sons of the giant.
19And there was again a battle in Gov [cistern] with the P’lishtim [Immigrants], where Elchanan [God has been gracious] the son of Ya’arei-Orgim [forests of weaver], a Beit-Lachmi [house of bread], killed [the brother of] Golyat [splendor] the Gitti [belonging to Gat (winepress)], the staff of whose spear [was] like a weaver’s beam.
20And there was yet a battle in Gat [Winepress], 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 giant.
21And when he defied Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] the son of Shim’ah [fame] the brother of David [beloved] killed him.
22These four were born to the giant in Gat [Winepress], and fell by the hand of David [beloved], and by the hand of his servants.
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