2 Samuel 21:8-10

International Standard Version

⁸ Instead, the king arrested Aiah’s daughter Rizpah’s two sons Armoni and Mephibosheth, whom she had borne to Saul, and the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab, whom she had borne to Barzillai the Meholathite’s son Adriel. ⁹ Then he turned them over to the custody of the Gibeonites, who hanged them on the mountain in the presence of the Lord. All seven of them died at the same time. They were executed during the first days of harvest, just as the barley began to be gathered in.

¹⁰ Then Aiah’s daughter Rizpah grabbed some sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock where her children had been hanged^[a] from the beginning of harvest until the first rain fell from the sky. She would not allow any scavenger birds^[b] to land on them during the day nor the beasts of the field to approach them^[c] at night.