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2 Samuel 21:1

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.

KJV

Facta est quoque fames in diebus David tribus annis jugiter : et consuluit David oraculum Domini. Dixitque Dominus : Propter Saul, et domum ejus sanguinum, quia occidit Gabaonitas.

Vulgate

Καὶ ἐγένετο λιμὸς ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις Δαυεὶδ τρία ἔτη, ἐνιαυτὸς ἐχόμενος ἐνιαυτοῦ, καὶ ἐζήτησεν Δαυεὶδ τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ κυρίου· καὶ εἶπεν Κύριος Ἐπὶ Σαοὺλ καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ ἀδικία διὰ τὸ αὐτὸν θανάτῳ αἱμάτων, περὶ οὗ ἐθανάτωσεν τοὺς Γαβαωνείτας.

LXX

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.

ASV

וַ/יְהִ֣י רָעָב֩ בִּ/ימֵ֨י דָוִ֜ד שָׁלֹ֣שׁ שָׁנִ֗ים שָׁנָה֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י שָׁנָ֔ה וַ/יְבַקֵּ֥שׁ דָּוִ֖ד אֶת פְּנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֗ה אֶל שָׁאוּל֙ וְ/אֶל בֵּ֣ית הַ/דָּמִ֔ים עַל אֲשֶׁר הֵמִ֖ית אֶת הַ/גִּבְעֹנִֽים

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

20 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
בַקֵּ֥שׁ
bqsh
verb · 225×
בֵּ֣ית
byt
noun · 2032×
גִּבְעֹנִ֗ים
gb'nym
noun · 8×
דָּוִ֔ד
dvd
proper_noun · 1067×
הוּ
hv
verb · 834×
ו
v
noun · 717×
וֹ
v
noun · 356×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×
רָעָ֖ב
r'b
noun · 101×
שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת
shlsht
adjective · 429×
שָׁא֔וּל
sh'vl
proper_noun · 404×
שָׁנָ֔ה
shnh
verb · 877×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Sam 21:5 — And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
  • 2Sam 24:13 — So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that ther
  • 2Tim 3:3 — Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
  • Deut 19:13 — Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
  • Exod 20:5 — Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them th
  • Exod 20:7 — Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
  • Exod 23:32 — Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
  • Exod 33:7 — And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the LORD went
  • Hag 1:6 — Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to pu
  • Jer 32:18 — Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name,
  • Josh 2:17 — And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.
  • Josh 6:18 — And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
  • Josh 7:11 — Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it
  • Josh 9:3 — And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
  • Prov 17:13 — Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
  • Ps 109:14 — Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.