2 Samuel 21:1-2

New English Translation

The Gibeonites Demand Revenge

21 During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord.^[a] The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family,^[b] because he murdered the Gibeonites.”

² So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to^[c] them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)