gibeonites <2SA21 -1> 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 he slew the {Gibeonites}. gibeonites <2SA21 -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 h is zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.) gibeonites <2SA21 -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 h is zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.) gibeonites <2SA21 -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? gibeonites <2SA21 -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. gibeonites <2SA21 -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 ba rley harvest. ~~~~~~