Person

Rizpah

리스바

Named at 2 Samuel 3:7: “Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah”. In that verse Ishbosheth says to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”, and at 3:8 Abner, very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, says, “and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman!” 2 Samuel 21:8–9 says that the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, who hanged them on the mountain before the LORD; at 21:10–11 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah takes sackcloth and spreads it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water pours on them from the sky, and allows neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night; and David is told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

Directly connected entries 4

Direct relationships 4

Open in the full graph

Collected relationship evidence

Source-backed narrative relations; not independent historical verification. Legacy dates and coordinates are outside this review.

Collection & rights

Source evidence (3)

AI-assisted comparison with the cited narrative; not independent historical verification.

2SA 3:6–11, engwebp
⁶While there was war between Saul’s house and David’s house, Abner made himself strong in Saul’s house.
⁷Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ishbosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”
⁸Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to your father Saul’s house, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman!
⁹God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as the LORD has sworn to David, I don’t do even so to him:
¹⁰to transfer the kingdom from Saul’s house, and to set up David’s throne over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.”
¹¹He could not answer Abner another word, because he was afraid of him.
Publisher text Rights & provenance
2SA 21:7–9, engwebp
⁷But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
⁸But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
⁹He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites; and they hanged them on the mountain before the LORD, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
Publisher text Rights & provenance
2SA 21:10–14, engwebp
¹⁰Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.
¹¹David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
¹²So David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;
¹³and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son. They also gathered the bones of those who were hanged.
¹⁴They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father; and they performed all that the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer for the land.
Publisher text Rights & provenance

AI-assisted, human review pending, 2026-09-26

Machine comparison on 2026-10-07: the wording raised none of the 3 rules against the passages this entry cites. No person has read it.

All 4 relationships: AI-assisted, human review pending

Aiah (father of Rizpah) — Father of — Rizpah

Evidence: 2 Samuel 3:6–11, 2 Samuel 21:7–9, 2 Samuel 21:10–14
Rizpah — Mother of — Armoni

Evidence: 2 Samuel 21:7–9
Rizpah — Mother of — Mephibosheth (son of Rizpah)

Evidence: 2 Samuel 21:7–9
Took part in (1) — Rizpah on the rock, and the bones of Saul and Jonathan buried in Zela

A relationship with an event rests on the passages the event cites: each event’s page has them.

Verses tagged with this entry

Names in the World English Bible text that carry this entry’s tag. They are carried over from the tags on the Korean Revised Version, which are matched by name inside chapters that already have collected evidence, and a verse where the English says “he” carries none. All await human review. They are a separate list from the source passages above. An empty list does not mean the entry is absent from the text.

4 verses

2 Samuel 3:7 Open that verse

Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ishbosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”

2 Samuel 21:8 Open that verse

But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

2 Samuel 21:10 Open that verse

Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.

2 Samuel 21:11 Open that verse

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

Something looks wrong in this entry?

This prepares a report carrying the entry, what it currently says and what it cites, so a reviewer can act on it. The form for sending it is not open yet, so for now the report can only be copied.

What looks wrong

Write what looks wrong first; a report without it cannot be acted on.

This is exactly what gets copied or sent:

[Bibliadatum entry report]

Entry: Rizpah (person-rizpah)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/person/rizpah
Current wording: Named at 2 Samuel 3:7: “Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah”. In that verse Ishbosheth says to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”, and at 3:8 Abner, very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, says, “and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman!” 2 Samuel 21:8–9 says that the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, who hanged them on the mountain before the LORD; at 21:10–11 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah takes sackcloth and spreads it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water pours on them from the sky, and allows neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night; and David is told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
Cited evidence: 2SA 3:6–11, engwebp / 2SA 21:7–9, engwebp / 2SA 21:10–14, engwebp
Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending

What looks wrong:
(not written yet)

---
This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.