2 Samuel 21:11

And it was told David what Respha the daughter of Aia the concubine of Saul had done, [ + 21:11 Heb. omits the words in italics.and they were faint, and Dan the son of Joa of the offspring of the giants overtook them.]

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

In Context

10And Respha the daughter of Aia took sackcloth, and fixed it for herself on the rock in the beginning of barley harvest, until water dropped upon them out of heaven: and she did not suffer the birds of the air to rest upon them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

12And David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of the sons of Jabis Galaad, who stole them from the street of Bæthsan; for the Philistines set them there in the day in which the Philistines smote Saul in Gelbue.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 2:4And the men of Judea come, and anoint David there to reign over the house of Juda; and they reported to David, saying, The men of Jabis of the country of Galaad have buried Saul.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 21:11-15

The Death of Saul's Sons. ( b. c. 1021.) 10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night. 11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. 12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had… Read the whole commentary →

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