2 Samuel 21:9-11

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⁹ David gave these seven sons to the Gibeonites. Then the Gibeonites ·killed them and hung them on stakes on a hill [impaled/executed them] in the presence of the Lord. All seven sons ·died [fell] together. They were put to death during the first days of the harvest season at the beginning of barley harvest.

¹⁰ Aiah’s daughter Rizpah took ·the rough cloth [burlap; sackcloth; ^Ca sign of mourning or distress] and put it on a rock for herself. She stayed there from the beginning of the harvest until the rain fell on ·her sons’ bodies [^Lthem from the heavens/sky]. During the day she did not let the ·birds of the sky [scavenger birds] touch her sons’ bodies, and during the night she did not let the wild animals touch them.

¹¹ People told David what Aiah’s daughter Rizpah, Saul’s ·slave woman [^Lconcubine; ^Ca secondary wife; 3:7], was doing.