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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.
2 Samuel 21:10 — KJV
Took sackcloth. The sackcloth was probably spread out as a tent to form a rough shelter for Rizpah during her long vigil.
Until water dropped. The usual dry season in Palestine lasted from spring until fall. Under normal conditions there would be no rain during this period (see p. 110). Whether at this time an unreasonable rainfall occurred, breaking the drought that had probably been responsible for the three-year famine, we are not told. The wheat harvest follows the barley harvest (Ex. 9:31, 32; Ruth 1:22; 2:23), and rain is exceedingly rare at that season (1 Sam. 12:17, 18; Prov. 26:1). The recording of this incident indicates that Rizpah’s devoted watch was of long duration.
Neither the birds. The bodies of the slain men were left exposed to the elements. Ordinarily bodies of men who were thus executed were to be buried the day they were hanged (Deut. 21:22, 23), but in this instance their bodies were apparently left exposed, perhaps till such a time as the fall of rain would give evidence of God’s restored blessing. In the East a body left in the open would almost immediately become the victim of wild beasts or flocks of vultures (see 1 Sam. 17:44, 46; 1 Kings 14:11; 16:4; 21:23, 24; Matt. 24:28). Through this long ordeal, day and night, Rizpah kept a devoted vigil over the bodies of her sons.
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