사울(왕) 의 첩이다.
사울이 죽은 뒤
Ish-bosheth 이 왕으로 있던 무렵 당시 군권을 장악하던
Abner 과 통간하였다는 소문이 돌았다.
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?”
이후, 사울이
기브온 사람들을 죽인 일로 원한을 사 하나님이 비를 내리시지 않는 일이 생겼다.
이에 그 피를 갚기 위해 사울의 아들들을 처형하게 되었는데, 이 리스바의 아들들이 죽임을 당하게 되었다.
리스바는 아들들의 시체를 지켜 새와 짐승들이 먹지 못하도록 하였고,
David 은 이를 듣고 감동하여 온전히 매장하도록 하였다.
4 The Gibeonites said to him, “It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel .” He said, “I will do for you whatever you say.”
5 They said to the king, “The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel ,
6 let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh.” The king said, “I will give them.”
7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
8 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 Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
9 He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before Yahweh, 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.
10 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.
11 David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
12 So 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 ;
13 and 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.
14 They 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.