2 Samuel 21:6

The Gibeonites ask for seven of Saul's descendants to be executed before the LORD at Saul's hometown, and David consents. The number and place mark this as solemn covenant justice, not arbitrary revenge.

Cross-references · 18

• 1 Sam 10:24Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one the LORD has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”
• Num 25:4–5Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”
• 1 Sam 10:26Saul also went to his home in Gibeah, and the men of valor whose hearts God had touched went with him.
• 1 Sam 11:4When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and relayed these words in the hearing of the people, they all wept aloud.
• 1 Sam 9:16–17“At this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you are to anoint him leader over My people Israel; he will save them from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked upon My people, because their cry has come to Me.”
• Esth 9:13–14Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out today’s edict, and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
• 2 Sam 17:23When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.
• Gen 40:22But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation.
• Acts 13:21Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them forty years under Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin.
• Deut 21:22If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,
• Gen 40:19Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”
• Matt 27:5So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
• Esth 9:10They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
• Ezra 6:11I also decree that if any man interferes with this directive, a beam is to be torn from his house and raised up, and he is to be impaled on it. And his own house shall be made a pile of rubble for this offense.
• Josh 8:29He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.
• 2 Sam 18:10When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”
• Josh 10:26After this, Joshua struck down and killed the kings, and he hung their bodies on five trees and left them there until evening.
• 1 Sam 10:1Then Samuel took a flask of oil, poured it on Saul’s head, kissed him, and said, “Has not the LORD anointed you ruler over His inheritance?

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