2 Samuel 21:6-8

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶ let seven of his sons be given to us, so that we may hang them up before the Lord at Gibeon on the mountain of the Lord.”^[a] And the king said, “I will give them.”

⁷ But the king spared Mephib′osheth, the son of Saul’s son Jonathan, because of the oath of the Lord which was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. ⁸ The king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Ai′ah, whom she bore to Saul, Armo′ni and Mephib′osheth; and the five sons of Merab^[b] the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to A′dri-el the son of Barzil′lai the Meho′lathite;