II Samuel 21-22

“It is on account of Saul and his blood-stained house; it is because he put the Gibeonites to death” (21:1). God said that a famine in David’s reign was the consequence of King Saul’s unlawful killing of the Gibeonites, a crime which had not been judged. Just as David’s sin with Bathsheba had far-ranging and terrible consequences, so did King Saul’s wrongdoing. The consequences were born by seven of Saul’s grandsons, who died to settle the score.

“How shall I make atonement?” (21:3). The sins of humans cause terrible consequences, personally and across generations. But Jesus chose to intervene; he bore the cost of all our sins himself, the righteous for the unrighteous, by making atonement on the cross