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Rizpah Defending the Bodies of Saul's Sons

II Samuel 21:8-11

21:8. So the king took the two sons of Rizpah, the daughter of Aia, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni, and Miphiboseth: and the five sons of Michol the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Hadriel the son of Berzellai, that was of Molathi:

Of Michol. . .They were the sons of Merob, who was married to Hadriel: but they are here called the sons of Michol, because she adopted them, and brought them up as her own.

21:9. and gave them into the hands of the Gabaonites: and they crucified them on a hill before the Lord: and these seven died together in the first days of the harvest, when the barley began to be reaped.

21:10. Rizpah, the daughter of Aia, took haircloth, and spread it under her upon the rock from the beginning of the harvest, until water dropped upon them out of heaven: and suffered neither the birds to tear them by day, nor the beasts by night.

21:11. It was told David, what Rizpah, the daughter of Aia, the concubine of Saul, had done.