Rizpah: 2 Samuel 21:8, 2 Samuel 3:7
took sackcloth: 1 Kings 21:27; Joel 1:18
from the: 2 Samuel 21:9; Deuteronomy 21:13
until water: Some suppose that this means a providential supply of rain, in order to remove the famine; but from the manner in which it is introduced, it seems to denote the autumnal rains, which commence about October. For five months did this broken-hearted woman watch by the bodies of her sons! Deuteronomy 11:14; 1 Kings 18:41-45; Jeremiah 5:24-25, Jeremiah 14:22; Hosea 6:3; Joel 2:23; Zechariah 10:1
the birds: Genesis 40:19; Ezekiel 39:4