2 Samuel 21:11

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

2 Samuel 21:11 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 21:11

And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the
concubine of Saul, had done.
] Whether this was told out of good will or ill will is not certain; however, it was not disagreeable to David, but served to move pity and compassion in him to the woman, and to stir him up to give an honourable interment to Saul and his sons; and which would show that this fact was not done out of personal pique and revenge to his family, but in obedience to the will of God, and the honour of his name.

2 Samuel 21:11 In-Context

9 He gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they executed them on the mountain in the presence of Yahweh, and the seven fell together. Now they were put to death in the days of the harvest, at the beginning of the harvest of barley.

10 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took the sackcloth, and she spread it for herself on the rock at the beginning of the harvest until water gushed forth on them from heaven, but she did not allow the birds of heaven to rest on them by day nor the animals of the field by night.

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

12 So David left and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the rulers of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth Shan, where [the] Philistines hung them {when} [the] Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa.

13 He brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there, and they gathered the bones of the executed.