5. They answered, “Saul wanted to destroy us and leave none of us alive anywhere in Israel.
6. So hand over seven of his male descendants, and we will hang them before the Lord at Gibeah, the town of Saul, the Lord's chosen king.”“I will hand them over,” the king answered.
7. But because of the sacred promise that he and Jonathan had made to each other, David spared Jonathan's son Mephibosheth, the grandson of Saul.
8. However, he took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons that Rizpah the daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul; he also took the five sons of Saul's daughter Merab, whom she had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai, who was from Meholah.