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and 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?”

2 Samuel 21:3 · WEB

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ગુજરાતી2 શમુએલ ૨૧:૩
તેથી દાઉદ રાજાએ ગિબ્યોનીઓને એકસાથે બોલાવીને કહ્યું, “હું તમારે માટે શું કરું? હું કેવી રીતે પ્રાયશ્ચિત કરું, જેથી તમે ઈશ્વરના લોકોને તેમની ભલાઈ અને વચનોના વતનનો આશીર્વાદ આપો?”
हिन्दी2 शमूएल २१:३
तब दाऊद ने गिबोनियों से पूछा, “मैं तुम्हारे लिये क्या करूँ? और क्या करके ऐसा प्रायश्चित करूँ, कि तुम यहोवा के निज भाग को आशीर्वाद दे सको?”

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?”

4The Gibeonites said to him, “It is no 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.” He said, “I will do for you whatever you say.”

5They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and who plotted against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

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