When David inquires of the Lord, God reveals that the famine, now in its third year, is His chastisement for Saul’s killing of the Gibeonites in violation of Joshua’s treaty with them. At the Gibeonites’ request, David has Saul’s surviving descendants hanged in retribution. “And after that, God heeded the prayer for the land” (2 Samuel 21:14 NKJV). Pastor Kevin reviews the extensive…