⁷ Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah daughter of Aiah. And Ishbaal^[a] said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”^(A)

⁸ The king took the two sons of Rizpah daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab^[a] daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite;^(A)

¹⁰ Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it on a rock for herself, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell on them from the heavens; she did not allow the birds of the air to come on the bodies^[a] by day or the wild animals by night.^(A)

¹¹ When David was told what Rizpah daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done,