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Then he turned them over to the custody of the Gibeonites, who hanged them on the mountain in the presence of the Lord. All seven of them died at the same time. They were executed during the first days of harvest, just as the barley began to be gathered in.

10 Then Aiah’s daughter Rizpah grabbed some sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock where her children had been hanged[a] from the beginning of harvest until the first rain fell from the sky. She would not allow any scavenger birds[b] to land on them during the day nor the beasts of the field to approach them[c] at night.

11 When David was informed what Rizpah, the daughter of Saul’s mistress[d] had done,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 21:10 The Heb. lacks where her children had been hanged
  2. 2 Samuel 21:10 Lit. any birds of the sky
  3. 2 Samuel 21:10 The Heb. lacks to approach them
  4. 2 Samuel 21:11 Lit. concubine; a secondary wife