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21 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 his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.”

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, but Saul sought to slay them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah)”

therefore 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?”

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