“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. When David learned what Rizpah, Saul’s concubine, had done, he went to the people of Jabesh-gilead and retrieved the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan. … as well as the bones of the men the Gibeonites had executed.”
This is a pitiful scene —a grief-stricken mother camped out on a mountainside beside the dead and decaying bodies of her two sons, chasing away the scavenging vultures and wild animals.
