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Gipatay sa mga Gibeohanon ang mga Kaliwat ni Saul

21 Sa panahon nga naghari si David, miabot ang tinggutom nga milungtad ug tulo ka tuig. Midangop si David sa Ginoo, ug miingon ang Ginoo, “Miabot ang gutom tungod kay gipapatay ni Saul ug sa iyang pamilya ang mga Gibeohanon.” Kining mga Gibeohanon dili mga Israelinhon; sila ang nahibiling mga kaliwat sa mga Amorihanon. Nanumpa ang mga Israelinhon nga dili nila sila pamatyon, apan nagtinguha si Saul sa paglaglag kanila tungod sa iyang dakong kabalaka alang sa Israel ug Juda.

Gipatawag ni David ang mga Gibeohanon ug gipangutana, “Unsay akong buhaton alang kaninyo aron mabayran ang sala nga nahimo ni Saul diha kaninyo, ug aron panalanginan ang katawhan sa Ginoo?” Mitubag ang mga Gibeohanon, “Dili mabayran ug pilak o bulawan ang among kasuko kang Saul ug sa iyang pamilya, ug wala usab kami katungod sa pagpatay ni bisan kinsa sa Israel.” Nangutana si David, “Unsa may inyong gusto nga akong buhaton alang kaninyo?” Mitubag sila, “Nagtinguha si Saul sa pagpatay kanamo aron walay mahibilin kanamo sa Israel. Busa itugyan ninyo kanamo ang pito sa iyang mga kaliwat nga lalaki, kay pamatyon namo sila ug pasagdan ang ilang mga patayng lawas didto sa dapit nga duol sa ginasimbahan sa Ginoo didto sa Gibea, sa lungsod ni Saul, ang hari nga pinili sa Ginoo.” Miingon ang hari, “Sige, ihatag ko sila kaninyo.”

Wala itugyan ni David kanila si Mefiboshet nga anak ni Jonatan ug apo ni Saul, tungod sa ilang gipanumpaan ni Jonatan atubangan sa Ginoo. Ang gitugyan ni David mao ang duha ka anak ni Saul nga si Armoni ug si Mefiboshet[a], nga ang ilang inahan mao si Rizpa nga anak ni Aya. Gitugyan usab ni David ang lima ka anak nga lalaki ni Merab. Si Merab anak ni Saul ug asawa ni Adriel nga anak ni Barzilai nga taga-Mehola. Gitugyan sila ni David ngadto sa mga Gibeohanon, ug gipamatay silang pito didto sa bungtod duol sa dapit nga ginasimbahan sa Ginoo. Ug gipasagdan lang ang ilang mga patayng lawas didto. Nahitabo kini sa pagsugod sa panahon sa ting-ani sa barley.

10 Ang anak ni Aya nga si Rizpa mikuha ug sako ug gibukhad kini sa may bato aron iyang higdaan. Gibantayan niya ang mga patayng lawas aron dili kini hilabtan sa mga langgam kon adlaw ug sa ihalas nga mga mananap kon gabii. Didto siya nagpabilin sa pagsugod sa ting-ani hangtod nga miulan.

11 Sa dihang gisultihan si David sa gihimo ni Rizpa nga asawa ni Saul, 12 miadto siya sa mga lumulupyo sa Jabes Gilead ug gikuha ang mga bukog ni Saul ug sa iyang anak nga si Jonatan. (Sa dihang namatay si Saul ug si Jonatan sa ilang pagpakiggira sa mga Filistihanon sa Gilboa, gipabitay sa mga Filistihanon ang ilang mga patayng lawas didto sa plasa sa Bet Shan, ug sekreto kini nga gikuha sa mga taga-Jabes Gilead.) 13 Gidala ni David ang mga bukog ni Saul ug ni Jonatan, apil usab ang mga bukog sa pito nga gipamatay sa mga Gibeohanon. 14 Ug gipalubong niya kini sa iyang mga tawo didto sa lubnganan sa amahan ni Saul nga si Kish, sa lungsod sa Zela sa Benjamin. Ug natuman tanan ang gimando ni David. Human niadto, gitubag sa Dios ang ilang pag-ampo alang sa ilang nasod.

Ang Gira Batok sa mga Filistihanon

(1 Cro. 20:4-8)

15 Wala madugay, naggira na usab ang mga Filistihanon ug mga Israelinhon. Ug samtang nakiggira si David ug ang iyang mga tawo, gibati siyag kakapoy. 16 Si Ishbi Benob nga Filistihanon, nga usa sa mga kaliwat sa mga Rafa,[b] nagtinguha sa pagpatay kang David. Ang tumoy sa iyang bangkaw bronsi nga may gibug-aton nga mga upat ka kilo, ug nagtakin siya ug bag-ong espada. 17 Apan miabot si Abishai nga anak ni Zeruya sa pagluwas kang David, ug gipatay niya kini nga Filistihanon. Human niadto miingon ang mga tawo ni David kaniya, “Dili na kami mosugot nga mouban ka pag-usab kanamo sa pagpakiggira. Sama ka sa suga sa Israel, ug dili kami gusto nga mawala ka.”

18 Paglabay sa panahon, naggira na usab ang mga Filistihanon ug mga Israelinhon, ug didto kini nahitabo sa Gob. Niadto nga gira gipatay ni Sibecai nga taga-Husha si Sap, nga usa usab sa mga kaliwat sa mga Rafa. 19 Ug sa usa pa nila ka gira didto sa Gob, gipatay ni Elhanan nga anak ni Jaare Oregim, nga taga-Betlehem, si Goliat nga taga-Gat. Ang bangkaw ni Goliat bug-at ug baga.[c]

20 Naggira pag-usab ang mga Filistihanon ug mga Israelinhon, ug didto kini nahitabo sa Gat. Niini nga gira, may tawo nga labihan kaayo kadako. May unom siya ka tudlo sa matag kamot ug tiil. Usa usab siya sa mga kaliwat sa mga Rafa. 21 Sa dihang gibugalbugalan niya ang mga Israelinhon, gipatay siya ni Jonatan nga anak sa igsoon ni David nga si Shimea.

22 Kadtong upat ka Filistihanon mga kaliwat sa mga Rafa nga taga-Gat. Gihurot silag patay ni David ug sa mga tawo niini.

Footnotes

  1. 21:8 Mefiboshet: Uyoan siya ni Mefiboshet sa bersikulo 7.
  2. 21:16 mga Rafa: o, mga Refaimnon. Tingali mga taas nga mga tawo nga nagapuyo sa Canaan sa wala pa mag-abot ang mga Israelinhon. Tan-awa sa Deu. 2:10-11.
  3. 21:19 bug-at ug baga: sa literal, sama sa sablayan sa hablanan sa maghahabol.

21 After the people had suffered from a famine for three successive years, David asked the Eternal One why the famine lingered, and the answer came that the nation was guilty for not making amends for the bloodlust of King Saul, who slaughtered the people of Gibeon. (The Gibeonites were not from Israel—they were related to the Amorites. Saul tried to annihilate them in his zeal for Israel and Judah, although the people of Israel had promised to spare them during the days of Joshua.) So David called for the leaders of Gibeon.

David: What can I do, what can I give you, to lift this guilt from my land so that you will honor the Eternal’s chosen people?

Gibeonite Leaders: Silver and gold won’t make things right for us with Saul’s kingdom. And it is not for us to tell you who should be subject to capital punishment in Israel.

David: I will do whatever you ask.

Gibeonite Leaders: Saul attacked us and tried to destroy us, to wipe us off the map of Israel. Give us seven of his descendants, and we will hang them on a tree in Gibeah before the Eternal, on His mountain.

David: I will give them to you.

Now the king did not give them Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson and Jonathan’s son, because of the sacred oath between David and Jonathan. But he did take Saul’s two sons by Rizpah (daughter of Aiah), Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the five sons of Merab (Saul’s daughter) that she had by Adriel (son of Barzillai the Meholathite). David had them seized and handed them over to the Gibeonites, who executed them before the Eternal One on the mountain. All seven of them died together, in the spring of the year during the first days of the barley harvest.

10 Rizpah, Aiah’s daughter, spread out sackcloth on a rock to make a place to sit; and from the time her sons died until rain fell in late autumn, she refused to let the birds or wild animals desecrate the bodies. 11 When David heard what Saul’s concubine Rizpah had done, 12 he went and gathered the bones of Saul and Jonathan (which the people of Jabesh-gilead had stolen from the place where they were hanged in the Philistine public square in Beth-shan on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa). 13 He took the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son and gathered the bones of those who had been impaled in Gibeon. 14 He had Saul and Jonathan buried in the tomb of their father Kish, in Zela in the land of Benjamin. All that David commanded was done; and afterward, God answered the prayers of the people of Israel for the land.

15 Philistia and Israel were at war again, and David and his soldiers fought them long and hard until at last he grew weary. 16 Then Ishbi-benob (who was a descendant of Raphah) announced that he had come to kill David. He carried a bronze spear, the head of which weighed nearly 10 pounds, and he carried a new sword. 17 But Abishai, Zeruiah’s son, came to David’s aid. He attacked and killed this Philistine.

David’s Men (to David): You can’t go out to fight with us any longer. If you are killed, then the lamp of Israel will go out.

18 Later the Israelites fought the Philistines at Gob; and Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, another Philistine warrior descended from the giant. 19 In another fight at Gob with the Philistines, Elhanan (son of Jaare-oregim of Bethlehem), killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear shaft was as large as a weaver’s beam. 20 Then in a battle at Gath, they fought against another famous warrior. He was a huge man with 6 fingers on each hand and 6 toes on each foot—24 in all—and he was also descended from the giant. 21 When he insulted the people of Israel, Jonathan (the son of David’s brother Shimei) killed him. 22 All four of these great warriors were descended from the giant of Gath, but all of them were defeated by the skill of David and his men.

21 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for 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: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)

Wherefore 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?

And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.

And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,

Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, whom the Lord did choose. And the king said, I will give them.

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the Lord's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:

And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:

13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.

15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.

16 And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.

17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.

18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.

19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.

21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimeah the brother of David slew him.

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