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2 Samuel 21:1-2
New English Translation
2 Samuel 21:1-2
New English Translation
The Gibeonites Demand Revenge
21 During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord.[a] The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family,[b] because he murdered the Gibeonites.”
2 So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to[c] them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)
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- 2 Samuel 21:1 tn Heb “sought the face of the Lord.”
- 2 Samuel 21:1 tn Heb “and the house of bloodshed.”
- 2 Samuel 21:2 tn Heb “swore an oath to.”
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