There was a famine during the days of Dovid, that lasted for three years, year after year [consecutively]. Dovid asked (Hashem) [why has this occurred]. (Adonoy) said, "On account of Shaul and his bloody House because he killed the Givonim."

The king called the Givonim and spoke to them [words of apppeasement]. The Givonim were not part of the Bnei Yisroel but were a remnant of the Emorites. The Bnei Yisroel had sworn to them [that they would let them live]. Shaul wanted to kill them in his zeal to avenge the Bnei Yisroel and Yehudah.

Dovid said to the Givonim, "What can I do for you? How can I atone [for your greivances], so that you should bless the heritage of Adonoy?"

The Givonim replied to him, "We are not interested in silver or gold from Shaul or from his household and we are not interested in killing anyone from Yisroel." He [Dovid] said, "What are you saying I should do for you?"

They replied to the king, "The man who stopped us and intended to destroy us [preventing us] from establishing ourselves throughout the boundaries of Yisroel.

Give us seven of his sons and we will hang them before Adonoy in Givas Shaul, the chosen one of Adonoy." The king said, "I will give [them to you]".

The king had pity on Mephivoshes, the son of Yohonoson, the son of Shaul because of the oath before Adonoy that was made between Dovid and Yohonoson, the son of Shaul.

The king took the two sons of Ritzpoh the daughter of Ayoh who had bore them to Shaul, [whose names were] Armoni and Mephivoshes, and [also] the five sons of Michal, the daughter of Shaul who had bore them to Adriel, the son of Birzilai, the Mecholtite.

He Delivered them to the hands of the Givonim and they hung them in the mountain before Adonoy. The seven were killed [all] at the same time. They were killed during the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

Ritzpoh, the daughter of Ayoh took a sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the mountain [where the corpses were]. [She stayed there] from the beginning of the harvest until the rains fell on them [the corpses] from heaven. She did not let any birds rest on them during the day nor any beasts of the field during the night.

Dovid was told what Ritzphoh, the daughter of Ayoh did; she was the concubine of Shaul.

Dovid went and took the bones of Shaul and the bones of Yohonoson, his son from the leaders of Yoveish Gilod who had stolen them from the street of Beis Shan. where they had hung them—the Pelishtim. on the day the Pelishtim killed Shaul in Gilboa.

He brought up the bones of Shaul and the bones of Yohonoson, his son and they gathered the bones that were hanging.

They buried the bones of Shaul and the bones of Yohonoson, his son in the land of Binyomin, in Tzailoh, in the grave of his father Kish. They did everything that the king had commanded. After that, God accepted the plea of the land

There was another war of the Pelishtim with Yisroel. Dovid and his servants went down and waged war against the Pelishtim and Dovid became exhausted.

Isho Benov, who was one of children of the giant and who had a spear case weighing three hundred bronze weights and who was armed with a new sword, said he was going to kill Dovid.

Avishai, the son Tsruyoh [came] to his aid, and struck the Peleshti and killed him. At that time, Dovid's men swore to him saying, "You shall no longer go out to war with us so that the light of Yisroel not become extinguished.

Afterwards, there was more war with the Pelishtim in Gov. At that time, Sivkai the Chushosi struck down Sof, who was one of the giant's children.

There was more war with the Pelishtim in Gov. and Elchonon, the son of Yari [whose family] were weavers in Beis Lechem, struck down Golias the Gitite, the wood part of his spear was like that of the weaver's rod.

There was another war in Gas and there was a giant man whose fingers and toes numbered six each for a total number of twenty-four. He also was a child of Horopho's.

He cursed Yisroel and Yohonoson killed him, [Yohonoson was] the son of Shimi, Dovid's brother.

These four [giants] were born to Horophoh in Gas and they [eventually] fell into the hands of Dovid and in the hands of his servants.