21:10 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain fell on them, 1 she did not allow the birds of the air to feed 2 on them by day, nor the wild animals 3 by night.
21:14 They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin at Zela in the grave of his father Kish. After they had done everything 4 that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers 5 for the land.
1 tn Heb “until water was poured on them from the sky.”
2 tn Heb “rest.”
3 tn Heb “the beasts of the field.”
4 tc Many medieval Hebrew
5 tn Heb “was entreated.” The verb is an example of the so-called niphal tolerativum, with the sense that God allowed himself to be supplicated through prayer (cf. GKC 137 §51.c).