and handed them over to the Gibeonites. They hanged[a] them on the hill in the presence of the Lord; the seven of them died together. They were executed in the first days of the harvest at the beginning of the barley harvest.[b]

The Burial of Saul’s Family

10 Rizpah, Aiah’s daughter, took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock from the beginning of the harvest[c] until the rain poured down from heaven on the bodies. She kept the birds of the sky from them by day and the wild animals by night.

11 When it was reported to David what Saul’s concubine Rizpah daughter of Aiah had done,

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Footnotes

  1. 21:9 Or impaled, or exposed, also in v. 13
  2. 21:9 = March–April
  3. 21:10 = April to October

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