2 Samuel 21:10-12

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David and Rizpah

¹⁰ Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took a mourning cloth and put it on the rock.^[a] That cloth stayed on the rock from the time the harvest began until the rains came. Rizpah watched the bodies day and night. She protected them from the wild birds during the day and the wild animals at night.

¹¹ People told David what Saul’s slave woman Rizpah was doing. ¹² Then David took the bones of Saul and Jonathan from the men of Jabesh Gilead. (The men of Jabesh Gilead got these bones after Saul and Jonathan were killed at Gilboa. The Philistines had hanged the bodies of Saul and Jonathan on a wall in Beth Shan.^[b] But the men of Beth Shan went there and stole the bodies from that public area.)