2 Samuel 21:1-3 ▼

1 And there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David inquired of YHWH. And YHWH answered, “Because of Saul and his house is the blood, on account that he killed the Gibeonites.”

2 And the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (And the Gibeonites, they were not of the sons of Israel, for they were only of the remnant of the Amorite. And the sons of Israel had sworn protection to them, and Saul had sought to kill them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah.)

3 And David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you?, and with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of YHWH?”