Discovery Box2 Samuel 21:1 
Context21:1 During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. 1 The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, 2 because he murdered the Gibeonites.”
2 Samuel 21:6
Context21:6 let seven of his male descendants be turned over to us, and we will execute 3 them before the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, who was the Lord’s chosen one.” 4 The king replied, “I will turn them over.”
1 tn Heb “sought the face of the
2 tn Heb “and the house of bloodshed.”
3 tn The exact nature of this execution is not altogether clear. The verb יָקַע (yaqa’) basically means “to dislocate” or “alienate.” In Gen 32:26 it is used of the dislocation of Jacob’s thigh. Figuratively it can refer to the removal of an individual from a group (e.g., Jer 6:8; Ezek 23:17) or to a type of punishment the specific identity of which is uncertain (e.g., here and Num 25:4); cf. NAB “dismember them”; NIV “to be killed and exposed.”
4 tc The LXX reads “at Gibeon on the mountain of the
