The Skeptics Annotated Bible (303 page)

10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when
the Philistines had slain Saul
in Gilboa:

(21.12)
“The Philistines had slain Saul.”
197 How did Saul die?

13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and
they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded.
And after that God was intreated for the land.

(21.13-14) “They gathered the bones of them that were hanged … And after that God was intreated for the land.” God stopped the famine after Saul’s two sons and five grandsons were killed and hung up for him.

15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.

(21.16-22) Sons of the giant!

16 And
Ishbi-benob, which was of the sons of the giant,
the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.

(21.16)
“Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant”

17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.

18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew
Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.

(21.18)
“Saph, which was of the sons of the giant”

19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where
Elhanan
the son of Jaare-oregim, a Beth-lehemite,
slew
[the brother of]
Goliath
the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

(21:19) “Elhanan slew [the brother of] Goliath.” (The editors of the King James Version added the words “the brother of” to avoid the obvious contradiction. This is shown by italics or brackets in the KJV.)
189 Who killed Goliath?
209 Whom did Elhanan kill?

20 And
there
was yet a battle in Gath, where
was a man of great stature
, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and
he also was born to the giant.

21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.

22
These four were born to the giant in Gath
, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

(21.22) “These four were born to the giant in Gath.”

22
And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:

2 And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.

4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

(22.8-16) David’s description of God and nature.