10 Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took [a]sackcloth and hanged it up for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest, until [b]water dropped upon them from the heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to [c]light on them by day, nor beasts of the field by night.

11 ¶ And it was told David, what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah the concubine of Saul had done.

12 And David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had (A)hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 21:10 To make her a tent wherein she prayed to God to turn away his wrath.
  2. 2 Samuel 21:10 Because drought was the cause of this famine, God by sending of rain showed that he was pacified.
  3. 2 Samuel 21:10 Or, rest.

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