2 Samuel 21:6 meaning and explanation

let seven of his male descendants be delivered to us so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” “I will give them to you,” said the king.

2 Samuel 21:6, Berean Standard Bible

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These are the Gibeonites answering King David during a three year famine. Saul had broken Israel's old oath to spare them and tried to destroy them, and the LORD named that bloodshed as the famine's cause.

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