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2 Samuel 21:11

AiahDavidRizpah
Faithfulness and loyalty

9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD. So all seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

When David was told what Saul’s concubine Rizpah, daughter of Aiah, had done,

12 he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.

13 So David had the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan brought from there, along with the bones of those who had been hanged.

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BSB
When David was told what Saul’s concubine Rizpah, daughter of Aiah, had done,
KJV
And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
WEB
David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
ASV
And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
DARBY
And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
BLB
And David was told what Rizpah daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
ÅB
Da David fikk vite hva Rispa, Ajas datter, Sauls medhustru, hadde gjort,
OTB
Da David fikk vite om handlingene til Rispa, datter av Aja, Sauls medhustru,
B1930
Da David fikk vite hvad Rispa, Ajas datter, Sauls medhustru, hadde gjort,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 2 Samuel 2:4

    Then the men of Judah came to Hebron, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, “It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul.”

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  • Ruth 2:11–12

    Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.

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