2 Samuel 21:5-7

Common English Bible

⁵ “Okay then,” they said to the king. “That man who opposed and oppressed^[a] us, who planned to destroy us, keeping us from having a place to live anywhere in Israel— ⁶ hand over seven of his sons to us, and we will hang them before the Lord at Gibeon^[b] on the Lord’s mountain.”

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

⁷ 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.