2 Samuel 21:7
King James Version
“But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD’S oath that between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.”
Context
4And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, will I do for you.
5And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
6Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give
7But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD’S oath that between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
8But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
9And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first in the beginning of barley harvest.
10And 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.