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.
The Gibeonites said to him, 'We don't want any silver or gold from Saul or his family, and we don't want you to kill anyone else in Israel for our sake.' David replied, 'Whatever you ask for, I will do for you.'
The Gibeonites told David they didn't want money or revenge killings, and David promised to give them whatever they requested instead.
📚 Historical Context
This conversation took place during a three-year famine in Israel that God revealed was caused by Saul's breaking of an ancient treaty with the Gibeonites. The Gibeonites were a non-Israelite people who had made a peace agreement with Joshua centuries earlier, but King Saul had violated this covenant by trying to destroy them. David was now seeking to make things right and end the famine.
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