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the way, euerie man went after Ioab, to follow of Israel had sworne: but Saul sought to slay
after Sheba the sonne of Bichri. 14 And he went them for his zeale toward the children of Israel
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through all the tribes of Israel vnto Abel, and and Iudah) And Dauid said vnto the Gibeonites,
Bethmaachah and all places of Berim: and they What shall I doe for you, and wherewith shall
gathered together, and went also after him. 15 So I make the atonement, that ye may blesse the
they came, and besieged him in Abel, neere to inheritance of the Lord? 4 The Gibeonites then
Bethmaachah: and they cast vp a mount against answered him, Wee will haue no siluer nor golde
the citie, and the people thereof stood on the of Saul nor of his house, neither for vs shalt thou
ramper, and al the people that was with Ioab, kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye
destroyed and cast downe the wall. 16 Then cried shall say, that will I doe for you. 5 Then they
a wise woman out of the citie, Heare, heare, I answered the King, The man that consumed vs
pray you, say vnto Ioab, Come thou hither, that and that imagined euill against vs, so that we
I may speake with thee. 17 And when hee came are destroyed from remaining in any coast of
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neere vnto her, the woman said, Art thou Ioab? Israel, Let seuen men of his sonnes be deliuered
And he answered, Yea. And she said to him, vnto vs, and we will hang them vp vnto the
Heare the wordes of thine handmaid. And he Lord in Gibeah of Saul, the Lordes chosen. And
answered, I do heare. 18 Then shee spake thus, the King said, I will giue them. 7 But the King
They spake in the olde time, saying, They shoulde had compassion on Mephibosheth the sonne of
aske of Abel. and so haue they continued. 19 I Ionathan the sonne of Saul, because of the Lordes
am one of them, that are peaceable and faithful othe, that was betweene them, euen betweene
in Israel: and thou goest about to destroy a citie, Dauid and Ionathan the sonne of Saul. 8 But
the King tooke the two sonnes of Rizpah the
and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou deuoure the daughter of Aiah, whome shee bare vnto Saul,
inheritance of the Lord? 20 And Ioab answered,
and said, God forbid, God forbid it me, that I euen Armoni and Mephibosheth and the fiue
should deuoure, or destroy it. 21 The matter is sonnes of Michal, the daughter of Saul, whome
not so, but a man of mout Ephraim (Sheba ye shee bare to Adriel the sonne of Barzillai the
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sonne of Bichri by name) hath lift vp his had Meholathite. And hee deliuered them vnto the
handes of the Gibeonites, which hanged them
against ye King, euen against Dauid: deliuer vs in the mountaine before the Lord: so they died
him onely, and I will depart from the citie. And all seuen together, and they were slaine in the
the woman saide vnto Ioab, Beholde, his head time of haruest: in the first dayes, and in the
shalbe throwen to thee ouer the wall. 22 Then
the woman went vnto all the people with her beginning of barly haruest. 10 Then Rizpah the
wisedome, and they cut off the head of Sheba daughter of Aiah tooke sackecloth and hanged it
the sonne of Bichri, and cast it to Ioab: the he vp for her vpon the rocke, from the beginning
blewe the trumpet, and they retired from the of haruest, vntill water dropped vpon them from
citie, euery man to his tent: and Ioab returned the heauen, and suffered neither the birdes of
to Ierusalem vnto the King. 23 Then Ioab was the aire to light on the by day, nor beasts of
ouer all the hoste of Israel, and Benaiah the the fielde by night. 11 And it was told Dauid,
sonne of Iehoiada ouer the Cherethites and ouer what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah ye concubine
the Pelethies, 24 And Adoram ouer the tribute, of Saul had done. 12 And Dauid went and tooke
and Ioshaphat the sonne of Ahilud the recorder, the bones of Saul and the bones of Ionathan his
25 And Sheia was Scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar sonne from the citizens of Iabesh Gilead, which
the Priests, 26 And also Ira the Iairite was chiefe had stollen them from the streete of Beth-shan,
about Dauid. where the Philistims had hanged them, when
the Philistims had slaine Saul in Gilboa.
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So
21 hee brought thence the bones of Saul and the
1 Then there was a famine in the dayes of bones of Ionathan his sonne, and they gathered
Dauid, three yeeres together: and Dauid asked the bones of them that were hanged. 14 And the
counsell of the Lord, and the Lord answered, It bones of Saul and of Ionathan his sonne buried
is for Saul, and for his bloodie house, because they in the coutrey of Beniamin in Zelah, in the
hee slewe the Gibeonites. 2 Then ye King called graue of Kish his father: and when they had
the Gibeonites and said vnto them. (Now the perfourmed all that the King had commanded,
Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but a God was then appeased with the land. 15 Againe
remnant of the Amorites, vnto whom ye children