1aNow bagain the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and it incited David against them to say, "cGo, number Israel and Judah."
b
2 Samuel 21:1, 2 Samuel 21:2
2 Samuel 21
1
Now there was aa famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and bDavid sought the presence of the Lord. And the Lord said, "It is for Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death."
2 Samuel 21
2
So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites, and athe sons of Israel made a covenant with them, but Saul had sought to kill them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah).