2 Samuel 21:10-12
International Standard Version
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, 12 David had Saul’s bones and the bones of his son Jonathan removed from the custody of certain men from Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square in Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them—that is, back on the day when the Philistines had killed Saul on Mount[e] Gilboa.
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- 2 Samuel 21:10 The Heb. lacks where her children had been hanged
- 2 Samuel 21:10 Lit. any birds of the sky
- 2 Samuel 21:10 The Heb. lacks to approach them
- 2 Samuel 21:11 Lit. concubine; a secondary wife
- 2 Samuel 21:12 The Heb. lacks Mount
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