2 Samuel 21:10-12

Expanded Bible

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. ¹² Then David took the bones of Saul and Jonathan from the men of Jabesh Gilead. (The Philistines had hung the bodies of Saul and Jonathan in the public square of Beth Shan after they had killed Saul at Gilboa. Later the men of Jabesh Gilead ·had secretly taken [stole] them from there [1 Sam. 31:8–13].)