II Samuel 21: 1, 14
There was a famine during David's reign that lasted for three years, so David asked the Lord about it. And the Lord said, "The famine has come because Saul and his family are guilty of murdering the Gibeonites."
Then the king ordered that they bury the bones in the tomb of Kish, Saul's father, at the town of Zela in the land of Benjamin. After that, God ended the famine in the land.
The story here is that the Israelites had previously sworn not to kill the Amorites, and the Gibeonites were Amorites. But Saul, in his mis-placed zeal, tried to wipe them out. Now David is suffering from the famine that resulted from this, and so he negotiated with the Gibeonites. After the execution of the guilty parties and their burial, God lifted the famine. God is very concerned for National righteousness.
O my Lord, what must we do to rectify all the evil that has been done in our own Nation, so that You can bless us with peace and prosperity? What must I do?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
