2 Samuel 21:9-11

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁹ The king handed them over to the Gibeonites, who executed them on the mountain in the Lord’s presence. All seven died together. They were killed at the beginning of the harvest, when people started harvesting barley.

¹⁰ Rizpah (Aiah’s daughter) took sackcloth and stretched it out on the rock for herself from the beginning of the harvest until the sky rained on the dead bodies. She wouldn’t let any birds land on them during the day or any wild animals come near them during the night.

¹¹ When David was told what Saul’s concubine ^[a] Rizpah (Aiah’s daughter) had done,