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 him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?” All the people shouted, and said, “Long live the king!”
• Num 25:4–5Yahweh said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.”
• 1 Sam 10:26Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and the army went with him, whose hearts God had touched.
• 1 Sam 11:4Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people, then all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
• 1 Sam 9:16–17“Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He will save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me.”
• Esth 9:13–14Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do tomorrow also according to today’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
• 2 Sam 17:23When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
• Gen 40:22but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
• Acts 13:21Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
• Deut 21:22If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree;
• Gen 40:19Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”
• Matt 27:5He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.
• Esth 9:10the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
• Ezra 6:11I have also made a decree that whoever alters this message, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened on it; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
• Josh 8:29He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
• 2 Sam 18:10A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”
• Josh 10:26Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening.
• 1 Sam 10:1Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, “Hasn’t Yahweh anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

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