2 Samuel 21:1

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.”

Ge 12:10; Ge 26:1; Ge 41:57; Ge 42:1; Ge 43:1; Le 26:19,20,26; Nu 27:21; Jos 7:1,11,12; 1Sa 22:17-19; 1Sa 23:2,4,11; 2Sa 5:19,23; 1Ki 17:1; 1Ki 18:2; 2Ki 6:25; 2Ki 8:1; Job 5:8-10; Job 10:2; Ps 50:15; Ps 91:15; Jer 14:1-18

¹ tn Heb “sought the face of the Lord.”

² tn Heb “and the house of bloodshed.”