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2 Samuel 21:9-13 Modern English Version (MEV)

9. He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the Lord; the seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the first days of harvest, in the beginning of the barley harvest.

10. Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of the harvest until the rains poured on them from heaven. She did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day nor the animals of the field by night.

11. When it was reported to David that which Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done,

12. David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead who had secretly taken them from the plaza in Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hung them the day the Philistines struck down Saul on Gilboa.

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

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