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Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,

discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 139. We are reading from 2nd Samuel, Chapter 21, First Chronicles, Chapter 26. We're praying Psalm 40. As always, the translation of the Bible that I'm reading from is the revised standard version, the second Catholic edition. I am using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year.

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That would be phenomenal and amazing. And you would be phenomenal and amazing.

If you don't, you're probably still phenomenal and amazing. As I said, today's day 139,

we're reading 2 Samuel chapter 21, First Chronicles 26, and we are praying Psalm 40.

The Second Book of Samuel, chapter 21, David avenges the Givianites. Now there was a famine in the

days of David for three years, year after year,

and David sought the face of the Lord, and the Lord said, there is blood guilt on Saul and on his

house, because he put the Gibonites to death. So the king called the Gibionites. Now, the Gibonites

were not of the sons of Israel, but the remnants of the Amorites, although the sons of Israel had sworn to spare them. Saul had sought to slay them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah. And David said to the Gibianites, What shall I do for you, and how shall I make expiation, that you may bless the heritage of the Lord. The Gibbeanites said to him,

It is not a matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house. Neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.

And he said, What do you say that I shall do for you? They said to the king, the man who consumed us and planned to destroy us,

so that we should have no place in all the

territory of Israel, let seven of his sons be given to us, that we may hang them up before the

Lord at Gibbon on the mountain of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them. But the king spared

Mapheth, the son of Saul's son, Jonathan, because of the oath of the Lord which was between them, between David and Jonathan, the son of Saul. The king took the two sons of Rizpah, the daughter of Aeah, whom she bore to Saul, Armani and Mephisheth, and the five sons of Marab, the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel, the son of Barzalai, the Miholethite. And he gave them into the hands of the Gibbeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the Lord, and the seven of them perished together. They were put to death in the first days of the harvest at the beginning of the barley harvest. Then Rispa, the daughter of Aia, took sackcloth, and spread it for herself on the rock from the beginning of the harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens, and she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day or the beasts of the field by night.

When David was told what Rizpa, the daughter of Aia, the concubine of Saul, had done, David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men of

Ghibesh Gilead who had stolen them from the public square of Bacchan, where the Philistines had hanged them

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