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2 Samuel 21:9-11
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2 Samuel 21:9-11
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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.
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- 2 Samuel 21:10 rock This might be the Big Rock at Gibeon (read 2 Sam. 20:8), the rock that the bodies were lying on, or a rock that marked the place where her sons were buried.
2 Samuel 21:9-11
New International Version
2 Samuel 21:9-11
New International Version
9 He handed them over to the Gibeonites, who killed them and exposed their bodies on a hill before the Lord. All seven of them fell together; they were put to death(A) during the first days of the harvest, just as the barley harvest was beginning.(B)
10 Rizpah daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest till the rain poured down from the heavens on the bodies, she did not let the birds touch them by day or the wild animals by night.(C) 11 When David was told what Aiah’s daughter Rizpah, Saul’s concubine, had done,
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