2 Samuel 21:9 meaning and explanation
And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD. So all seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest.
2 Samuel 21:9, Berean Standard Bible
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David hands over seven of Saul's male descendants to the Gibeonites, the people Saul had wrongly tried to destroy despite Israel's old oath to spare them. The hanging happens "before the LORD" at Gibeah, Saul's own town, so the execution is presented as public justice answering bloodguilt, not private revenge.
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