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Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Shamoa, the son of Bichri, and threw it out over the wall to Joab. And Joab blew the trumpet, and they withdrew from the city and departed every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

THEN there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered. It is because of Saul and because of his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

So the king called the Gibeonites and said to 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 to them, and Saul had sought to slay them in his zeal to cause the children of Israel and Judah to sin),

And the Gibeonites said to him, It is not silver and gold that Saul and his house owe us; neither do we wish to kill any one in Israel. And he said to them, Whatever you shall say, that will I do for you.

Let seven of his sons be delivered to us, and we will sacrifice them before the LORD in Gibeah of Saul. And the king said, I will give them.

And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from Rehab of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, on the day the Philistines slew Saul in the mountain of Gilboa;

And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of those who were slain;

And they buried the bones of Saul and of Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin in Zelzah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father; and they did all that the king commanded. And after that God was reconciled toward the land.

Moreover the Philistines were again at war with Israel; and David went down and his servants with him to fight against the Philistines;

These four were born to the giants in Gath, and fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

AND David spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul;

In my distress I called upon the LORD and cried to my God; and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

There went up a smoke because of his anger, and fire kindled out of his face; and coals were kindled by it.

He bowed the heavens and came down; and darkness was under his feet.

And he made darkness his pavilion round about him, the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

Out of the brightness of his shelter he made his clouds hail and coals of fire.

The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice, hail and coals of fire.

And he sent out his arrows and scattered them; he increased his lightning and discomfited them.

For all his judgments were before me; and his statutes I have not put away from me.

Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.