2 Samuel 21:4

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And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shall you kill any man in Israel. And he said, What you shall say, that will I do for you.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Gold. It is supposed that David made them an offer of some. (Salien, the year before Christ 1040.) Israel besides. At first they required all the progeny of Saul, nine in number, to be crucified: but, at David's request, and intimation that he had sworn to protect the sons of Jonathan, Miphiboseth and Micha, (Haydock) they were content with the death of seven. (Menochius) They insist upon the law of retaliation. (Salien) The custom of delivering up criminals to be executed by the relations of the injured dead, still subsists in the East. (Calmet)

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