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Rizpah

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

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Riz´pah (a coal); a concubine of Saul, memorable for the touching example of maternal affection which she afforded, in watching the dead bodies of her sons, and driving the birds away from them, when they had been gibbeted by the Gibeonites (;; ).

 

 

 

 

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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Rizpah'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​kbe/​r/rizpah.html.
 
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