2 Samuel 21:10
And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
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.
Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.
And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured upon them from heaven; and she suffered neither the birds of the heavens to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Rizpah
- 2 Samuel 21:8; 2 Samuel 3:7
- took sackcloth
- 1 Kings 21:27; Joel 1:18
- from the
- 2 Samuel 21:9; Deuteronomy 21:13
- until water
- Some suppose that this means a providential supply of rain, in order to remove the famine; but from the manner in which it is introduced, it seems to denote the autumnal rains, which commence about October. For five months did this broken-hearted woman watch by the bodies of her sons!
- Deuteronomy 11:14; 1 Kings 18:41–45; Jeremiah 5:24, 25; Jeremiah 14:22; Hosea 6:3; Joel 2:23; Zechariah 10:1
- the birds
- Genesis 40:19; Ezekiel 39:4