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Rizpah guards her sons' bodies on the rock of Gibeah for six months until King David buries them.
Main Characters in S7E2 (2)
David
The shepherd boy who felled Goliath with a sling, hid with 400 outlaws in the Cave of Adullam, and became Israel's anointed warrior-king — "a man after God's own heart" whose line leads to Jesus.
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Rizpah
Fierce, grieving mother who spread sackcloth on the bare rock of Gibeah for six months — from barley harvest until the autumn rains — beating off vultures by day and jackals by night until King David honored her slain sons with burial.
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Armoni
Firstborn son of Rizpah and King Saul, executed at Gibeah to atone for Saul's broken oath to the Gibeonites and guarded for six months by his mother's vigil on the rock.
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Younger son of Rizpah and King Saul (distinct from Jonathan's lame son Mephibosheth) whose body his mother guarded on the rock of Gibeah until David gave him honorable burial.
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The Amorite remnant bound to Israel by Joshua's 400-year-old covenant oath — whose unlawful slaughter by King Saul triggered a three-year famine in David's reign.
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King Saul
Israel's tall first monarch who cowered before Goliath in heavy bronze armor, hurled his spear at David and Jonathan in jealous rage, and broke Israel's oath with the Gibeonites.
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