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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
2 Samuel 21:10–14, “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. And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa: And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged. And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.”
When Saul’s descendants were killed, to pay for the blood that Saul shed when he tried to wipe out the Gibeonites, the mother of some of the men guarded their bodies from any animals or other things that might desecrate their bodies. When David heard about this he took Saul’s and Jonathan’s bones and brought them back to Saul’s inheritance. David made sure that all the bones were buried in the Kish family vaults. The drought broke after the sin had been dealt with and everything was dealt with according to the Law.
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