2 Samuel 21:9-11

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⁹ he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they impaled them on the mountain before the Lord. The seven of them perished together. They were put to death in the first days of harvest, at the beginning of barley harvest.

¹⁰ Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it on a rock for herself, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell on them from the heavens; she did not allow the birds of the air to come on the bodies^[a] by day or the wild animals by night.^{(A) 11} When David was told what Rizpah daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done,