2 Samuel 21:8

21:8 So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aiah’s daughter Rizpah whom she had born to Saul, and the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab ¹  whom she had born to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

2 Samuel 21:10-11

21:10 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 fell on them, ²  she did not allow the birds of the air to feed ³  on them by day, nor the wild animals ⁴  by night. 21:11 When David was told what Rizpah daughter of Aiah, Saul’s concubine, had done,

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¹ tc The MT reads “Michal” here, but two Hebrew manuscripts read “Merab,” along with some LXX manuscripts. Cf. 1 Sam 18:19.

² tn Heb “until water was poured on them from the sky.”

³ tn Heb “rest.”

⁴ tn Heb “the beasts of the field.”