and handed them over to the Gibeonites, who hanged them on the mountain before Yahweh. All seven fell together; they were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest.
In context
7But the king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan son of Saul, because of the oath before Yahweh between David and Jonathan son of Saul. 8Instead the king took the two sons Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the five sons Michal daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite, 9and handed them over to the Gibeonites, who hanged them on the mountain before Yahweh. All seven fell together; they were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest. 10Rizpah daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock, from the beginning of the harvest until the rain poured down on the bodies from the sky. She did not let the birds of the sky settle on them by day, or the wild animals by night. 11David was told what Rizpah daughter of Aiah, Saul’s concubine, had done.
