So they said to the king, “(A)The man who destroyed us and who planned [a]to eliminate us so that we would not exist within any border of Israel— let seven men from his sons be given to us, and we will [b]hang them (B)before the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, (C)the chosen of the Lord.” And the king said, “I will give them.”

But the king spared (D)Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, (E)because of the oath of the Lord which was between them, between David and Saul’s son Jonathan.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 21:5 Lit against us that we are eliminated from
  2. 2 Samuel 21:6 Or expose them

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