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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Rizpah
Saul's concubine. When David handed seven of Saul's descendants over to be executed to end a famine, two of them her sons, she kept watch over their bodies for months. She drove off the birds by day and the animals by night.
Saul's concubine. When David handed seven of Saul's descendants over to be executed to end a famine, two of them her sons, she kept watch over their bodies for months. She drove off the birds by day and the animals by night.
Rizpah was one of Saul's concubines, and after David handed over seven of Saul's descendants to be executed to end a famine, Rizpah kept a lonely vigil over their exposed bodies for months, driving off birds and animals by day and night until David finally arranged a proper burial, a grief so striking it moved David to action.
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- 2 Samuel 3:7
- 2 Samuel 21:8
- 2 Samuel 21:10
- 2 Samuel 21:11
