2 Samuel 21:8

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6 let seven men of his descendants be delivered ^ato us, and we will hang them before the Lord ^bin Gibeah of Saul, ^cwhom the Lord chose.” And the king said, “I will give them.”

7 But the king spared ^aMephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of ^bthe Lord’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

8 So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of ^aRizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, and the five sons of¹ Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she² brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;

9 and he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill ^abefore the Lord. So 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.

10 Now ^aRizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, ^bfrom the beginning of harvest until the late rains poured on them from heaven. And she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.

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

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Adam Clarke

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2 Samuel 21:8

Five sons of Michal - whom she brought up - Michal, Saul' s daughter, was never married to Adriel, but to David, and afterwards to Phaltiel; though it is here said she bore yaledah , not brought up, as we falsely translate it: but we learn from I Samuel 18:19, that Merab, one of Saul' s daughters, was married to Adriel.

Two of Dr. Kennicott' s MSS. have Merab, not Michal; the Syriac and Arabic have Nadab; the Chaldee has properly Merab; but it renders the passage thus: - And the five sons of Merab which Michal the daughter of Saul brought up, which she brought forth to Adriel the son of Barzillai. This cuts the knot.

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