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hand over seven of his sons to us, and we will hang them before the Lord at Gibeon[a] on the Lord’s mountain.”

“I will hand them over,” the king said.

But the king spared Mephibosheth, Jonathan’s son and Saul’s grandson, because of the Lord’s solemn pledge that was between them—between David and Saul’s son Jonathan. So the king took the two sons of Aiah’s daughter Rizpah, Armoni and Mephibosheth, whom she had birthed for Saul; and the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab,[b] whom she birthed for Adriel, Barzillai’s son, who was from Meholah,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 21:6 Correction; cf LXX and 21:9; MT at Gibeah of Saul, the Lord’s chosen one
  2. 2 Samuel 21:8 LXXLN; MT Michal (but cf 2 Sam 6:23)

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