2 Samuel 21:1–9

Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David ^†inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because ^ahe slew the Gibeonites. ²And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but ^bof 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.) ³Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless ^cthe inheritance of the Lord? ⁴And 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. ⁵And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that ^d||devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel, ⁶Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the Lord ^ein Gibeah of Saul, ^||whom the Lord did choose. And the king said, I will give them. ⁷But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of ^fthe Lord’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. ⁸But the king took the two sons of ^gRizpah 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: ⁹And 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 ^hthe beginning of barley harvest.