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2 Samuel 21
2 Samuels 1, 2,
3, 4,
5, 6,
7, 8,
9, 10,
11, 12,
13, 14,
15, 16,
17, 18,
19, 20,
21, 22,
23, 24
2 Samuel 21:1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year
after year; and David enquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for
Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
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,
What ye shall say, 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 men 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.
10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah 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.
11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of
Saul, had done.
12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son
from the men of Jabesh gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan,
where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in
Gilboa:
13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his
son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of
Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all
that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.
15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down,
and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed
faint.
16 And Ishbibenob, 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.
17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and
killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more
out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.
18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the
Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the
sons of the giant.
19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the
son of Jaareoregim, a Beth-lehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite,
the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
20 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 giant.
21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David
slew him.
22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and
by the hand of his servants.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
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