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There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

2 Samuel 21:1 · WEB

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ગુજરાતી2 શમુએલ ૨૧:૧
દાઉદની કારકિર્દી દરમ્યાન લગાતાર ત્રણ વર્ષ સુધી દુકાળ પડ્યો, દાઉદે ઈશ્વરને પોકાર કર્યો. તેથી ઈશ્વરે કહ્યું, “શાઉલ તથા તેના ખૂની કુટુંબને લીધે તારા રાજ્ય પર આ દુકાળ આવ્યો છે, કેમ કે તેણે ગિબ્યોનીઓને મારી નાખ્યા હતા.”
हिन्दी2 शमूएल २१:१
दाऊद के दिनों में लगातार तीन वर्ष तक अकाल पड़ा; तो दाऊद ने यहोवा से प्रार्थना की। यहोवा ने कहा, “यह शाऊल और उसके खूनी घराने के कारण हुआ, क्योंकि उसने गिबोनियों को मरवा डाला था।”

In context

1There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

2The king called the Gibeonites and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);

3and David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless the LORD’s inheritance?”

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