II Samuel - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 336
The History of the People of Israel
they used to say when discussing a. matter, ‘ Make an enquiry at Abel ’ and that ended it. I am one of the peaceful crowd in Israel. You are seeking to murder a. city and mother inlsrael. Why would you desolate the L0m>’s estate? * But ]’oab answered and said to hor,
‘ It would be a terror at night to me if I should destroy or desolateiti Do not say sol But a. man from Mount Ephraim, named VSheba·ben- Bikri, has raised his hand against to me, and I will leave the town. The woman therefore, answered
Then I will ding you his ead over the wall l' The woman therefore went to some
of the soldiers on the wall, and they cut 0E the head of Sheba-ben—Bikri, and flung it to ]'oab, who blew a trumpet and they retired hom the city, each to his tent, and Yoab returned to jerusalem to the king. .c. 1022.) josh again mah: Mam- ¤:an‘¤:r—i¤·®l;i2f. 23 Then ]'oab was appointed over the whole army of Israel, and Beniah· bewjhodiada over the Guards and
24 Light Infantry ,; and Adoram4bene Akhilud was Chancellor, and Shebah, Secretary; and Zadok and Abiathar, Priests; and Aira, the jarite was Priest to David. (B.¤· wz!.) W-hre: Qzarf famine, EI] aah the wragzhg at iiigfalfs im:. There was once a famine in the
time of David for three years, year after year, so David sought the presence of the Evmz-uvmc, and the Evan-Lxvme said, ‘*It is for Saul and his murderous house, because he killed the Gibaonites.' The king consequently sent for the Gibaonites, and asked them ger the Gibaonites were not of the C ildren of Israel, but a remnant of the Amorites, to whom the Children of Israel had sworn, but Saul wished to exterminate them in his zeal for the Children of Israel and the tEVER·· LIVING). David asked the Gibaonites ‘What can I do for you? And by what can I make amends? so that you will bless the inheritance of the And the Gibaonites replied to him We will not take silver or gold from
Saul or his family, and no man shall be killed in Israel for us. ‘ Whatever you ask I will do for you. The
man who destroyed us, and who wasted us, so that wears prohibited from residing in any part of Israel, let there be given to us seven men from his children, and we will hang them for the Evma·L1VING in Gibath of Saul, the Elect of the Evmv I will give ` But the king refrained. from Meli-
bosheth, the son of ]’honathan, the son of Sau1,,because_of the oath of the EVER-LIVING that was between David and jfhonathan, the son of Saul. But the king took the two sons of Rizfah, the daughter of Aish, whom she had borne to Saul, Armoni and Mehbosheth, and the nve sons of Mikal, the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adrial-ben·~Barzi1i, the Makholathite, and delivered them into the hands of the Gibaonites, and they hung them on a Hill before the Evaamrvmo, and the seven fell at once,.and were killed at the time of harvest before they begin to cut the barley. Rizfah, the daughter of Aiah, how—
ever,·took sack cloth and covered the rock with it, from the beginning of harvest until the rain fell on them from the sky, and would not allow a bird of the air to alightyupon them by day, or a wild beast of the field by night. And it was reported to David what Rizfah, the daughter of Aiah, the slave-wife of Saul was doing, so David sent and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Yhonathan, his son, from the Masters of ]'abesh Gilad, which they had taken, from the walls of Beth-shan, where the 336 IO II I2
