And David said unto the Gibeonites, [a]What shall I do for you, and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the Lord?

The Gibeonites then answered him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul nor of his house, neither for us shalt thou kill [b]any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say that will I do for you.

Then they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that imagined evil against us, so that we are destroyed from remaining in any coast of Israel,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 21:3 Wherewith may your wrath be appeased, that you may pray to God to remove this plague from his people.
  2. 2 Samuel 21:4 Save only of Saul’s stock.

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