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2 Samuel 21:10-12
Contemporary English Version
2 Samuel 21:10-12
Contemporary English Version
Rizpah Takes Care of the Bodies
10 Rizpah spread out some sackcloth[a] on a nearby rock. She wouldn't let the birds land on the bodies during the day, and she kept the wild animals away at night. She stayed there from the beginning of the harvest until it started to rain.[b]
The Burial of Saul and His Descendants
11-12 (A) Earlier the Philistines had killed Saul and Jonathan on Mount Gilboa and had hung their bodies in the town square at Beth-Shan. The people of Jabesh in Gilead had secretly taken the bodies away, but David found out what Saul's wife[c] Rizpah had done, and he went to the leaders of Jabesh to get the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan.
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