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Then the Gibeonites said to him, “It is not a matter for us of[a] silver or gold with Saul or with his household. It is not for us to put to death anyone in Israel.” He asked, “What are you saying that I should do for you all?” Then they said to the king, “The man who consumed us and who plotted against us so that we were destroyed from existing in all of the territory of Israel, let seven men from his sons be given over to us, and we will execute them before Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen one of Yahweh.” Then the king said, “I will give them over.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 21:4 Literally “There is not for me (Qere ‘us’)”