2 Samuel 21:8-10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁸ But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, who were the two sons whom Rizpah^(A) daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, and the five sons whom Merab^[a](B) daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite ⁹ and handed them over to the Gibeonites. They hanged^[b] them on the hill in the presence of the Lord; the seven of them died together. They were executed in the first days of the harvest at the beginning of the barley harvest.^[c]

The Burial of Saul’s Family

¹⁰ Rizpah, Aiah’s daughter, took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock from the beginning of the harvest^[d] until the rain poured down from heaven on the bodies. She kept the birds of the sky from them by day and the wild animals by night.