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Aiah

Gender:: Male
Verse mentions:: 4

Aiah was the father of Rizpah, a concubine of Saul. After two of Rizpah's sons were executed to end a famine, she guarded their exposed bodies from birds and animals for months, an act of grief that moved David to give all of Saul's dead a proper burial (2 Samuel 21:8-14).

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Rizpah

Appears in 4

Reference	Verse
2 Samuel 3:7	And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ishbosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father’s concubine?
2 Samuel 21:8	But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
2 Samuel 21:10	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.
2 Samuel 21:11	And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

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