2 Samuel 21:9-11
1599 Geneva Bible
9 And he delivered them unto the hands of the Gibeonites, which hanged them in the mountain before the Lord: so they [a]died all seven together: and they were slain in the time of harvest: in the [b]first days, and in the beginning of barley harvest.
10 Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took [c]sackcloth and hanged it up for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest, until [d]water dropped upon them from the heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to [e]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.
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- 2 Samuel 21:9 Hebrew, fell.
- 2 Samuel 21:9 Which was in the month Abib or Nisan, which contained part of March and part of April.
- 2 Samuel 21:10 To make her a tent wherein she prayed to God to turn away his wrath.
- 2 Samuel 21:10 Because drought was the cause of this famine, God by sending of rain showed that he was pacified.
- 2 Samuel 21:10 Or, rest.
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