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II Samuel Chapter 21

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II Samuel

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In this chapter David confronts the Ammonites who have taken his son Absalom captive, and he orders his men to kill the captors, showing his determination to avenge his son. The chapter also reflects the tension between divine judgment and human vengeance, as God’s anger is evident in the Ammonite defeat.

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(1) 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.
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Genesis 12:10Genesis 26:1Genesis 41:57Genesis 42:1Genesis 43:1Leviticus 26:19Leviticus 26:20Leviticus 26:26I Kings 17:1I Kings 18:2II Kings 6:25II Kings 8:1

(2) 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.)
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Joshua 9:3Joshua 9:4Joshua 9:5Joshua 9:6Joshua 9:7Joshua 9:8Joshua 9:9Joshua 9:10Joshua 9:11Joshua 9:12Joshua 9:13Joshua 9:14

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Jeremiah 40:15

(3) 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?
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Exodus 32:30Leviticus 1:4I Samuel 2:25Micah 6:6Micah 6:7Hebrews 9:22Hebrews 10:4Hebrews 10:5Hebrews 10:6Hebrews 10:7Hebrews 10:8Hebrews 10:9

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Numbers 33:54Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:4Psalms 115:12Numbers 26:54Joshua 19:9

(4) 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.
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Psalms 49:6Psalms 49:7Psalms 49:8I Peter 1:18I Peter 1:19

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Exodus 38:17

(5) 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,
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II Samuel 21:1Esther 9:24Esther 9:25Matthew 7:2Daniel 9:26

(6) 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.
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II Samuel 17:23II Samuel 18:10Genesis 40:19Genesis 40:22Numbers 25:4Numbers 25:5Deuteronomy 21:22Joshua 8:29Joshua 10:26Ezra 6:11Esther 9:10Esther 9:13

(7) 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.
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II Samuel 4:4II Samuel 9:10II Samuel 16:4II Samuel 19:25I Samuel 18:3I Samuel 20:8I Samuel 20:15I Samuel 20:17I Samuel 20:42I Samuel 23:18

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I Samuel 19:7II Samuel 4:4I Samuel 13:22I Samuel 14:12I Samuel 14:13I Samuel 14:42

(8) 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:
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II Samuel 3:7I Samuel 18:19

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Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17Genesis 24:47Genesis 36:14Numbers 26:59

(9) 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.
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II Samuel 21:6II Samuel 6:17II Samuel 6:21Exodus 20:5Numbers 35:31Numbers 35:32Numbers 35:33Numbers 35:34Deuteronomy 21:1Deuteronomy 21:2Deuteronomy 21:3Deuteronomy 21:4

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Luke 10:2Ruth 2:23Ruth 1:22Leviticus 19:9Leviticus 23:10Leviticus 23:22

(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.
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II Samuel 21:8II Samuel 3:7I Kings 21:27Joel 1:18II Samuel 21:9Deuteronomy 21:13Deuteronomy 11:14I Kings 18:41I Kings 18:42I Kings 18:43I Kings 18:44I Kings 18:45

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Isaiah 34:14II Samuel 21:8Luke 12:53Ruth 1:22II Samuel 21:9Lamentations 2:18

(11) And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
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II Samuel 2:4Ruth 2:11Ruth 2:12

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II Samuel 3:7II Samuel 21:8Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17II Samuel 21:10

(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:
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II Samuel 2:5II Samuel 2:6II Samuel 2:7I Samuel 31:11I Samuel 31:12I Samuel 31:13Joshua 17:11I Samuel 31:10II Samuel 1:6II Samuel 1:21I Samuel 28:4I Samuel 31:1

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Jeremiah 8:1II Samuel 21:13II Kings 23:18I Samuel 31:1I Chronicles 10:1I Samuel 7:7

(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.
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Jeremiah 8:1II Kings 23:18II Samuel 21:12Exodus 13:19I Kings 13:31Job 40:18

(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.
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II Samuel 3:32II Samuel 4:12Joshua 18:28I Samuel 10:2II Samuel 24:25Exodus 32:27Exodus 32:28Exodus 32:29Numbers 25:13Joshua 7:26I Kings 18:40I Kings 18:41

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I Kings 13:31Jeremiah 8:1II Samuel 21:13II Samuel 21:12II Kings 23:18Genesis 49:31

(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.
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II Samuel 5:17II Samuel 5:22I Chronicles 20:4Joshua 14:10Joshua 14:11Psalms 71:9Psalms 71:18Psalms 73:26Ecclesiastes 12:3Isaiah 40:28Isaiah 40:29Isaiah 40:30

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I Samuel 7:7I Samuel 28:19I Samuel 31:1I Chronicles 10:1I Samuel 19:8Judges 14:4

(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.
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Genesis 6:4Numbers 13:32Numbers 13:33Deuteronomy 1:28Deuteronomy 2:10Deuteronomy 2:21Deuteronomy 3:11Deuteronomy 9:2I Samuel 17:4I Samuel 17:5II Samuel 21:18II Samuel 21:20

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I Chronicles 28:15I Samuel 17:5Genesis 24:22Numbers 7:13Numbers 7:19Numbers 7:25

(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.
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II Samuel 20:6II Samuel 20:7II Samuel 20:8II Samuel 20:9II Samuel 20:10II Samuel 22:19Psalms 46:1Psalms 144:10II Samuel 18:3II Samuel 14:7I Kings 11:36I Kings 15:4

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Isaiah 30:26II Samuel 2:18Isaiah 60:19Luke 11:36John 12:36I Samuel 17:50

(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.
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I Chronicles 11:29I Chronicles 20:4II Samuel 21:16II Samuel 21:20

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I Chronicles 20:4I Samuel 4:2II Samuel 21:19I Samuel 29:4Judges 16:30I Samuel 31:2

(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.
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I Chronicles 11:26I Chronicles 20:5I Samuel 17:4I Samuel 17:5I Samuel 17:6I Samuel 17:7I Samuel 17:8I Samuel 17:9I Samuel 17:10I Samuel 17:11

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I Chronicles 20:5I Chronicles 11:23II Samuel 23:21I Samuel 4:2II Samuel 21:18I Samuel 29:4

(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.
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I Chronicles 20:6II Samuel 21:16II Samuel 21:18

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I Chronicles 20:6Revelation 13:18I Chronicles 3:4I Chronicles 7:40II Samuel 21:22I Chronicles 23:4

(21) And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.
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I Samuel 17:10I Samuel 17:25I Samuel 17:26I Samuel 17:36II Kings 19:13I Chronicles 27:32I Samuel 16:9I Samuel 17:3I Chronicles 2:13

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I Chronicles 20:7I Samuel 14:13I Samuel 19:7

(22) These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
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I Chronicles 20:8Joshua 14:12Psalms 60:12Psalms 108:13Psalms 118:15Ecclesiastes 9:11Jeremiah 9:23Romans 8:31Romans 8:37

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II Samuel 21:20Ezekiel 48:16I Chronicles 20:8Exodus 25:26Exodus 37:13I Chronicles 20:6

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