2 Samuel 21:6-8

Common English Bible

⁶ hand over seven of his sons to us, and we will hang them before the Lord at Gibeon^[a] on the Lord’s mountain.”

“I will hand them over,” the king said.

⁷ But the king spared Mephibosheth, Jonathan’s son and Saul’s grandson, because of the Lord’s solemn pledge that was between them—between David and Saul’s son Jonathan. ⁸ So the king took the two sons of Aiah’s daughter Rizpah, Armoni and Mephibosheth, whom she had birthed for Saul; and the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab,^[b] whom she birthed for Adriel, Barzillai’s son, who was from Meholah,