The Gibeonites then answered him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul nor of his house, neither for us shalt thou kill [a]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,

Let seven men of his [b]sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up [c]unto the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, the Lord’s chosen, And the king said, I will give them.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 21:4 Save only of Saul’s stock.
  2. 2 Samuel 21:6 Of Saul’s kinsmen.
  3. 2 Samuel 21:6 To pacify the Lord.

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