Plain and Simple

Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites. And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.) Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD? And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you. 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, Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them. But the king spare Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite: And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest. And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night. And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.-2 Samuel 21:1-11***Saul was an Israelite from the tribe of Benjamin and lived in Gibeah in the Promised Land. Over 300 years before Samuel the priest, prophet and judge from the tribe of Levi anointed Saul to reign as king, the Israelites were being led by Moses, and Moses was being led by the Lord God. When Moses was proclaiming his last messages to the Israelites, Moses described the blessings that would occur if the Israelites obeyed the voice of the Lord God and the curses, including drought, that would occur if the Israelites did not obey the voice of the Lord God. When Moses went upon Mount Nebo, the Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, Canaan, and 120-year-old Moses died and was divinely buried. Joshua, Moses' successor, led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew), and to Abraham's son Isaac, and to Isaac's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel), and to their descendants. Shortly thereafter, Joshua and the Israelites defeated the inhabitants of Jericho and Ai, according to the commands of the Lord God. The Gibeonites were Hivites living in Gibeon. The Hivites, Amorites and Canaanites were descendants of Canaan, and Canaan was born to Ham, and Ham was born to Noah the ark builder. The Israelites descended from Noah's son Shem, and Shem's son Arphaxad. The Canaanites and Amorites were 2 of the largest idolatrous groups throughout Canaan. In the divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible, the idol worshiping inhabitants of Canaan are sometimes identified as Canaanites or Amorites, despite their individual distinctions. When the Gibeonites learned that the Israelites conquered Jericho and Ai, they tricked Joshua into making a peace treaty with them, and the Israelite leaders made a vow to the Gibeonites. After the Israelite leaders realized they had been deceived, they developed a plan, and Joshua pronounced the terms of the plan to the Gibeonites. Shortly thereafter, 5 Amorite kings united to defeat the Gibeonites, and the Gibeonites sought help from Joshua. The Lord God spoke to Joshua and the Lord God caused the Israelites to defeat the 5 kings. Over 300 years after 110-year-old Joshua died and was buried in his tribe's portion of the Promised Land, the Israelites were being led by Samuel, and Samuel anointed Saul to reign, according to the command of the Lord God. At least twice, Saul did not obey the commands of the Lord God. While Saul reigned, the Lord God sent Samuel to anoint David, from the tribe of Jacob's 4th born son Judah, to reign as king. Years before David began to reign, David killed and beheaded Goliath the gigantic Philistine. Saul's son Jonathan made a covenant with David. The Israelite women sang of David higher than they sang of Saul, and Saul was angry and became afraid of David, and wanted to kill David, and commanded others, including Jonathan, to kill David. Saul's daughter Michal was married to David and helped David escape from their home. Afterwards, Saul arranged for Michal to marry Palti (Phalti/Paltiel/Phaltiel), and David became married to Abigail and Ahinoam. Meanwhile, Saul killed some Gibeonites, although the details are not revealed in the Holy Bible. On the battlefield, the Philistines killed Jonathan and his brothers Malchishua and Abinadab (Ishui?), and Saul killed himself. Men from the tribe of Judah anointed 30-year-old David and David began to reign only over the tribe of Judah. Saul's son Ishbosheth (Eshbaal) reigned over the other Israelite tribes. When Ishbosheth asked his relative and army commander Abner an accusatory question involving Rizpah, who had been Saul's concubine, Abner left Ishbosheth's side and went to David, and David demanded that Michal be bought to him. Sometime after Ishbosheth was murdered, the Israelite elders went to David and David made a covenant with them. The elders anointed 37-year-old David and David became the 2nd king to reign over all of the Israelites. While reigning, David went with a multitude of Israelites to retrieve the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the home of Obed-edom, wherein the ark had been for 3 months after the ark had been in the home of Abinadab in Kirjath-jearim for 20 years. As the Levites were bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord, according to the commands that the Lord God gave Moses and Moses' older brother Aaron, and David was entering the City of David, Michal saw David leaping and dancing before the Lord God. After the ark of the covenant of the Lord was placed in a specific tent, and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and blessed the Israelites, and gave them bread and cake, David went home. Michal spoke words to David, and David spoke words to Michal, and there was a distance between them, and Michal remained childless. The 5 sons under Michal's care were the sons born to Michal's older sister Merab and Merab's husband Adriel the Meholathite. Adriel was an Israelite, born to Barzillai the Meholathite, an Israelite probably from Abel-Meholah (Meholah). Over 900 years after Solomon, the 2nd child born to David and Bathsheba, became the 3rd king to reign over all of the Israelites, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis, Exodus, Numbers 13:1-14:45, 20:1-29, 27:1-36:13, Deuteronomy 27:1-34:12, Joshua, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra 1:1-11, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26 

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So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them. And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.-1 Samuel 14:47-48

And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.-2 Samuel 4:4

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