2 Samuel 21:9-11

Easy-to-Read Version

⁹ David gave these seven men to the Gibeonites who then brought them to Mount Gibeah and hanged them in front of the Lord. Those seven men died together in the spring, during the first days of the barley harvest.

David and Rizpah

¹⁰ Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took a mourning cloth and put it on the rock.^[a] That cloth stayed on the rock from the time the harvest began until the rains came. Rizpah watched the bodies day and night. She protected them from the wild birds during the day and the wild animals at night.

¹¹ People told David what Saul’s slave woman Rizpah was doing.