So the king took the two sons of (A)Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, Armoni and Mephibosheth whom she had borne to Saul, and the five sons of [a](B)Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the (C)Meholathite. Then he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they [b]hanged them in the mountain before the Lord, so that the seven of them fell together; and they were put to death in the first days of harvest at (D)the beginning of barley harvest.

10 (E)And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until [c]it rained on them from the sky; and (F)she [d]allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 21:8 So Gr and Heb mss
  2. 2 Samuel 21:9 Lit exposed them
  3. 2 Samuel 21:10 Lit water was poured
  4. 2 Samuel 21:10 Lit gave