2 Samuel 21:10

Good News Translation

Then Saul's concubine Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, used sackcloth to make a shelter for herself on the rock where the corpses were, and she stayed there from the beginning of harvest until the autumn rains came. During the day she would keep the birds away from the corpses, and at night she would protect them from wild animals.

Cross References

Genesis 40:19

In three days the king will release you—and have your head cut off! Then he will hang your body on a pole, and the birds will eat your flesh.”

2 Samuel 21:11

When David heard what Rizpah had done,

2 Samuel 3:7

One day Ishbosheth son of Saul accused Abner of sleeping with Saul's concubine Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah.

1 Kings 21:27

When Elijah finished speaking, Ahab tore his clothes, took them off, and put on sackcloth. He refused food, slept in the sackcloth, and went about gloomy and depressed.

Jeremiah 14:22

None of the idols of the nations can send rain; the sky by itself cannot make showers fall. We have put our hope in you, O Lord our God, because you are the one who does these things.

Ezekiel 39:4

Gog and his army and his allies will fall dead on the mountains of Israel, and I will let their bodies be food for all the birds and wild animals.

Hosea 6:3

Let us try to know the Lord. He will come to us as surely as the day dawns, as surely as the spring rains fall upon the earth.”

Joel 1:18

The cattle are bellowing in distress because there is no pasture for them; the flocks of sheep also suffer.

Joel 2:23

“Be glad, people of Zion, rejoice at what the Lord your God has done for you. He has given you the right amount of autumn rain; he has poured down the winter rain for you and the spring rain as before.

Zechariah 10:1

Ask the Lord for rain in the spring of the year. It is the Lord who sends rain clouds and showers, making the fields green for everyone.

Deuteronomy 11:14

If you do, he will send rain on your land when it is needed, in the autumn and in the spring, so that there will be grain, wine, and olive oil for you,

Deuteronomy 21:13

and change her clothes. She is to stay in your home and mourn for her parents for a month; after that, you may marry her.

Deuteronomy 21:22

“If someone has been put to death for a crime and the body is hung on a post,

Deuteronomy 21:23

it is not to remain there overnight. It must be buried the same day, because a dead body hanging on a post brings God's curse on the land. Bury the body, so that you will not defile the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

1 Samuel 17:44

“Come on,” he challenged David, “and I will give your body to the birds and animals to eat.”

1 Samuel 17:46

This very day the Lord will put you in my power; I will defeat you and cut off your head. And I will give the bodies of the Philistine soldiers to the birds and animals to eat. Then the whole world will know that Israel has a God,