King James Version
2 Samuel 21:11 in the King James Version says “And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 21 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.”
2 Samuel 21:11 · KJV
And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And it was told”
H5046properly, to front, i.e., stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“the daughter”
H1323a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
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