2 Samuel 21:1

Overview - 2 Samuel 21
The three years' famine for the Gibeonites ceases, by hanging seven of Saul's sons.
10 Rizpah's kindness unto the dead.
12 David buries the bones of Saul and Jonathan in his father's sepulchre.
15 Four battles against the Philistines, wherein four valiants of David slay four giants.
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2 Samuel 21:1  (King James Version)
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
 


A
M. 2986. B.C. 1018. An. Ex. Ex. Is. 473. a famine.
Genesis 12:10 ; 26:1 41:57 42:1 43:1 Leviticus 26:19 Leviticus 26:20 Leviticus 26:26 ; 1 Kings 17:1 ; 18:2
2 Kings 6:25 ; 8:1 Jeremiah 14:1-18

enquired
Hebrew sought the face, etc. of the Lord.
2 Samuel 5:19 2 Samuel 5:23 Numbers 27:21 ; 1 Samuel 23:2 1 Samuel 23:4 1 Samuel 23:11 ; Job 5:8-10 ; 10:2 Psalms 50:15 ; 91:15

It is
Joshua 7:1 Joshua 7:11 Joshua 7:12

Saul
1 Samuel 22:17-19