1 Facta est quoque fames in diebus David tribus annis jugiter: et consuluit David oraculum Domini. Dixitque Dominus: Propter Saul, et domum ejus sanguinum, quia occidit Gabaonitas. 2 Vocatis ergo Gabaonitis rex, dixit ad eos (porro Gabaonitæ non erant de filiis Israël, sed reliquiæ Amorrhæorum: filii quippe Israël juraverant eis, et voluit Saul percutere eos zelo, quasi pro filiis Israël et Juda), 3 dixit ergo David ad Gabaonitas: Quid faciam vobis? et quod erit vestri piaculum, ut benedicatis hæreditati Domini? 4 Dixeruntque ei Gabaonitæ: Non est nobis super argento et auro quæstio, sed contra Saul, et contra domum ejus: neque volumus ut interficiatur homo de Israël. Ad quos rex ait: Quid ergo vultis ut faciam vobis? 5 Qui dixerunt regi: Virum qui attrivit nos et oppressit inique, ita delere debemus, ut ne unus quidem residuus sit de stirpe ejus in cunctis finibus Israël. 6 Dentur nobis septem viri de filiis ejus, ut crucifigamus eos Domino in Gabaa Saul, quondam electi Domini. Et ait rex: Ego dabo. 7 Pepercitque rex Miphiboseth filio Jonathæ filii Saul, propter jusjurandum Domini quod fuerat inter David et inter Jonathan filium Saul. 8 Tulit itaque rex duos filios Respha filiæ Aja quos peperit Sauli, Armoni, et Miphiboseth: et quinque filios Michol filiæ Saul quos genuerat Hadrieli filio Berzellai, qui fuit de Molathi, 9 et dedit eos in manus Gabaonitarum: qui crucifixerunt eos in monte coram Domino: et ceciderunt hi septem simul occisi in diebus messis primis, incipiente messione hordei. 10 Tollens autem Respha filia Aja cilicium, substravit sibi supra petram ab initio messis, donec stillaret aqua super eos de cælo: et non dimisit aves lacerare eos per diem, neque bestias per noctem. 11 Et nuntiata sunt David quæ fecerat Respha filia Aja, concubina Saul. 12 Et abiit David, et tulit ossa Saul, et ossa Jonathæ filii ejus, a viris Jabes Galaad, qui furati fuerant ea de platea Bethsan in qua suspenderant eos Philisthiim cum interfecissent Saul in Gelboë: 13 et asportavit inde ossa Saul, et ossa Jonathæ filii ejus: et colligentes ossa eorum qui affixi fuerant, 14 sepelierunt ea cum ossibus Saul et Jonathæ filii ejus in terra Benjamin, in latere, in sepulchro Cis patris ejus: feceruntque omnia quæ præceperat rex, et repropitiatus est Deus terræ post hæc. 15 Factum est autem rursum prælium Philisthinorum adversum Israël, et descendit David, et servi ejus cum eo, et pugnabant contra Philisthiim. Deficiente autem David, 16 Jesbibenob, qui fuit de genere Arapha, cujus ferrum hastæ trecentas uncias appendebat, et accinctus erat ense novo, nisus est percutere David. 17 Præsidioque ei fuit Abisai filius Sarviæ, et percussum Philisthæum interfecit. Tunc juraverunt viri David, dicentes: Jam non egredieris nobiscum in bellum, ne extinguas lucernam Israël. 18 Secundum quoque bellum fuit in Gob contra Philisthæos: tunc percussit Sobochai et Husati, Saph de stirpe Arapha de genere gigantum. 19 Tertium quoque fuit bellum in Gob contra Philisthæos, in quo percussit Adeodatus filius Saltus polymitarius Bethlehemites Goliath Gethæum, cujus hastile hastæ erat quasi liciatorium texentium. 20 Quartum bellum fuit in Geth: in quo vir fuit excelsus, qui senos in manibus pedibusque habebat digitos, id est, viginti quatuor: et erat de origine Arapha. 21 Et blasphemavit Israël: percussit autem eum Jonathan filius Samaa fratris David. 22 Hi quatuor nati sunt de Arapha in Geth, et ceciderunt in manu David et servorum ejus.
2 Samuel 21 Clementine Vulgate
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Adriel
Adriel of Meholah, son of Barzillai the Meholathite, who received Saul's daughter Merab in marriage and fathered five sons who were handed over to the Gibeonites.
Cited in the guide: 1 Samuel 18:19; 2 Samuel 21:8
Aiah
Named as the father of Rizpah, Saul's concubine.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 3:7; 2 Samuel 21:8
Armoni
One of the two sons Rizpah bore to Saul, handed over by David to the Gibeonites and hanged.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 21:8
Barzillai
Called Barzillai the Meholathite, the father of Adriel who married Saul's daughter Merab.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 21:8
David
The shepherd who became Israel's greatest king and a man after God's own heart.
Cited in the guide: 1 Sam. 16 - 1 Kings 2; 2 Sam. 7; 1 Chron. 2:15; Matt. 1:6
Elhanan
Elhanan son of Jair, a Bethlehemite, who in a battle with the Philistines at Gob killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear shaft was like a weaver's beam.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 21:19; 1 Chronicles 20:5
Ishbi-benob
A descendant of Rapha with a bronze spear weighing three hundred shekels, who set out to kill David in battle with the Philistines but was killed by Abishai.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 21:16
Jair
Named as the father of Elhanan the Bethlehemite, who killed Goliath's brother.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 21:19; 1 Chronicles 20:5
Jonathan
A son of David's brother Shimei, who killed the six-fingered descendant of Rapha who taunted Israel at Gath.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 21:21; 1 Chronicles 20:7
Mephibosheth
One of the two sons Rizpah bore to Saul, handed over by David to the Gibeonites and hanged with his brother Armoni and five sons of Merab.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 21:8
Rizpah
Saul's concubine, the daughter of Aiah, who bore Saul two sons and, after they were hanged by the Gibeonites, guarded their bodies from the birds and beasts from the harvest until…
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 3:7; 2 Samuel 21:8; 2 Samuel 21:10
Saph
One of the descendants of Rapha, killed by Sibbecai the Hushathite in a battle with the Philistines at Gob.
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 21:18; 1 Chronicles 20:4
Sibbecai
Sibbecai the Hushathite, who killed Saph, one of the descendants of Rapha, in a battle with the Philistines at Gob. 1 Chronicles 11:29 lists Sibbecai where 2 Samuel 23:27 reads…
Cited in the guide: 2 Samuel 21:18; 2 Samuel 23:27; 1 Chronicles 11:29
Cross references (21)
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- 1 Joshua 7:11–12; Genesis 26:1; Genesis 12:10; 1 Samuel 23:4; 1 Kings 18:2
- 2 Joshua 9:3–21; 2 Kings 10:31; 1 Samuel 15:8–9; Romans 10:2; 2 Kings 10:16
- 3 Hebrews 9:22; 2 Samuel 20:19; 1 Samuel 26:19; Micah 6:6–7; Hebrews 10:4–12
- 4 1 Peter 1:18–19; Psalm 49:6–8
- 5 2 Samuel 21:1; Matthew 7:2; Daniel 9:26; Esther 9:24–25
- 6 1 Samuel 10:24; Numbers 25:4–5; 1 Samuel 10:26; 1 Samuel 11:4; 2 Samuel 18:10
- 7 1 Samuel 23:18; 1 Samuel 18:3; 2 Samuel 4:4; 1 Samuel 20:15; 1 Samuel 20:8
- 8 1 Samuel 18:19; 2 Samuel 3:7
- 9 Ruth 1:22; Deuteronomy 21:1–9; Numbers 35:31–34; 2 Samuel 21:6; 2 Kings 24:3–4
- 10 Deuteronomy 21:23; 2 Samuel 3:7; 1 Kings 18:41–45; Joel 2:23; 1 Kings 21:27
- 11 2 Samuel 2:4; Ruth 2:11–12
- 12 1 Samuel 31:10–13; Joshua 17:11; 1 Chronicles 10:1; 2 Samuel 1:21; 1 Samuel 28:4
- 14 Joshua 18:28; 2 Samuel 24:25; Joshua 7:26; Zechariah 6:8; 2 Samuel 3:32
- 15 Joshua 14:10–11; Psalm 71:9; 2 Samuel 5:17; 2 Samuel 5:25; Ecclesiastes 12:3
- 16 2 Samuel 21:20; 2 Samuel 21:18; Deuteronomy 9:2; Deuteronomy 3:11; 2 Samuel 5:18
- 17 1 Kings 11:36; 2 Samuel 18:3; Psalm 132:17; 1 Kings 15:4; 2 Samuel 14:7
- 18 1 Chronicles 11:29; 2 Samuel 21:20; 1 Chronicles 27:11; 2 Samuel 21:16; 2 Samuel 21:22
- 19 1 Chronicles 20:5; 1 Samuel 17:4–11; 1 Chronicles 11:26
- 20 2 Samuel 21:18; 2 Samuel 21:16; 1 Chronicles 20:6
- 21 1 Samuel 16:9; 1 Samuel 17:36; 1 Samuel 17:10; 1 Samuel 17:25–26; 1 Samuel 17:3
- 22 1 Chronicles 20:8; Romans 8:31; Jeremiah 9:23; Joshua 14:12; Ecclesiastes 9:11
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