5 Then they replied, “It was Saul who planned to destroy us, to keep us from having any place at all in the territory of Israel.
6 So let seven of Saul’s sons be handed over to us, and we will execute them before the lord at Gibeon, on the mountain of the lord.”“All right,” the king said, “I will do it.”
7 The king spared Jonathan’s son Mephibosheth, who was Saul’s grandson, because of the oath David and Jonathan had sworn before the lord.
8 But he gave them Saul’s two sons Armoni and Mephibosheth, whose mother was Rizpah daughter of Aiah. He also gave them the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab, the wife of Adriel son of Barzillai from Meholah.
9 The men of Gibeon executed them on the mountain before the lord. So all seven of them died together at the beginning of the barley harvest.
10 Then Rizpah daughter of Aiah, the mother of two of the men, spread burlap on a rock and stayed there the entire harvest season. She prevented the scavenger birds from tearing at their bodies during the day and stopped wild animals from eating them at night.
11 When David learned what Rizpah, Saul’s concubine, had done,