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2 Samuel 21:9-13

2 Samuel 21:9

Then he handed them over to the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the Lord, so that the seven of them fell together; and they were put to death in the first days of harvest at the beginning of barley harvest.

2 Samuel 21:10

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until it rained on them from the sky; and she allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day nor the wild animals by night.

2 Samuel 21:11

When it was reported to David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done,

2 Samuel 21:12

then David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them on the day the Philistines struck and killed Saul in Gilboa.

2 Samuel 21:13

He brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan, and they gathered the bones of those who had been hanged.