Shmuel | Samuel

In the days of David there was [once] a famine for three years, year after year. David inquired of Hashem, and Hashem said, “It is for Saul and for the House of Blood, for his having killed the Gibeonites.”
21:1
David said to the Gibeonites, “What can I do for you, and how can I atone [for this sin], so that you will bless the heritage of Hashem?”
21:3
They said to the king, “The man who annihilated us and who schemed against us that we be eliminated from remaining within the entire border of Israel let seven men of his sons be given to us and we will hang them for the sake of Hashem in the Gibeah of Saul (the chosen of Hashem).” The king then said, “I will give [them to you].”
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The king had mercy on Mephibosheth son of Jonathan son of Saul, because of the oath of Hashem that was between them — between David and Jonathan son of Saul.
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He delivered them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before Hashem; all seven of them fell together. They were put to death during the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest.
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… They did all that the king commanded, and God answered the prayers of the land after that.
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Ishbi-benob — who was one of the children of the giant, and whose spear weighed three hundred copper weights and who was girded with a new [sword] — declared that he would strike down David.
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Abishai son of Zeruiah came to his aid and he struck the Philistine, killing him. Then David’s men swore to him, saying, “You shall not go out to war with us anymore, so that you not extinguish the lamp of Israel!”
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Daily Holy Bible Reading

1 And 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: “(It is) for Saul, and (also) for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.”
2 And the 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; but Saul (nevertheless) sought to slay them in his zeal for the sake of the children of Israel and Judah.
3 And David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement so that you shall bless the inheritance of the Lord?”
4 And the Gibeonites said to him, “We have no [matters] of silver and gold with Saul, or with his house, and we [care not] to put to death any man in Israel.” And he said, “What do you request [that] I shall do for you?”
5 And they said to the king, “The man who consumed us and who plotted [against] us that we be destroyed from remaining within any of Israel’s borders.
6 Let there be delivered to us seven men from among his sons, and we will hang them for (the sake of) the Lord in Givath Saul, the chosen of the Lord.” And the king said, “I shall deliver (them).”
7 But the king took pity on Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the Lord’s oath that was between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
8 And the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Ayah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before the Lord, and they fell all seven together. And they were put to death in the days of the harvest, in the first (days), at the beginning of the barley harvest.
10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took the sackcloth and she spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of the harvest until water was poured upon them from heaven; and she allowed not the birds of the heaven to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
11 And it was told to David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
12 And David went and he took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh- gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, on the day that the Philistines slew Saul in Gilboa.
13 And he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of those that were hanged.
14 And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the sephulcre of Kish his father; and they did all that the king commanded. And God was entreated for the land after that.
15 And the Philistines waged war again with Israel; and David went down with his servants and they fought against the Philistines, but David became faint.
16 And Ishbi, who was one of the sons of Raphah was in Nob; and the weight of his spear was three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight; and he was girded with new armor, and he thought to smite David.
17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah aided him, and he struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him saying, “You shall no longer go out with us to battle, so that you extinguish not the lamp of Israel.”
18 And it came to pass after this, that there was war again at Gob with the Philistines; Then Sibbcai the Hushathite slew Saph, who was one of the sons of Raphah.
19 And there was war again Gob with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath the Gittite, and the staff of his spear was as [thick as] the weavers’ beam.
20 And there was again war at Gath, and there was [there] a man of great stature, and the fingers of his hands and the toes of his feet were six and six, totalling twenty four; and he too was born to Orpah.
21 And he taunted Israel, and Jonathan the son of Shimea, David’s brother, smote him.
22 These four were born to Raphah in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

Exposé | Moral

Not Everything In The Scripture Can Be Explained Or Known

Here’s an example during David’s time – a famine.

Not as a result of his sin with Bath-sheba. But of Saul’s against the Gibeonites.

*Although part of the answer to the question: “Why good people suffer; and evil people prosper” in this present world can be found in Deuteronomy chapter 7:9-11