2 Samuel 3:7 Cross References - Rotherham

⁷ Now, Saul, had a concubine, whose name, was Rizpah daughter of Aiah,––and [Ish–bosheth] said unto Abner, Why, wentest thou in, unto my father’s concubine?

⁸ and gave unto thee the household of thy lord, and the wives of thy lord, into thy bosom, and gave unto thee the house of Israel and Judah. And, if this had been too little, I could have further given thee more and more of such things.

²¹ And Ahithophel said unto Absolom, Go in unto thy father’s concubines, whom he hath left to keep the house,––so shall all Israel hear that thou hast made thyself odious unto thy father, and the hands of all that are with thee, shall be strengthened. ²² And they stretched out for Absolom a tent, upon the house–top,––and Absolom went in unto his father’s concubines, in the sight of all Israel.

⁸ So the king took the two sons of Rizpah daughter of Aiah, whom she had borne to Saul, even Armoni and Mephibosheth,––and the five sons of Michal daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai, the Meholathite; ⁹ and delivered them up into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they crucified them in the mountain, before Yahweh, so they seven fell together,––they being put to death in the first days of harvest, in the beginning of the barley harvest.
¹⁰ Then Rizpah daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth, and spread it out for herself, on the rock, from the beginning of harvest, until water poured out upon them from the heavens,––and suffered neither the birds of the heavens to rest on them by day, nor the wild beasts of the field, [to devour them] by night. ¹¹ And it was told David,––what Rizpah daughter of Aiah, Saul’s concubine, had done.

¹⁷ And she said unto him––Say on. And he said––Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, for he will not turn away thy face,––that he give me Abishag the Shunammite, to wife.

²¹ And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother, to wife. ²² Then answered King Solomon, and said to his mother––Wherefore, then, art thou asking Abishag the Shunammite, for Adonijah? ask, then, for him the kingdom, because he is mine elder brother,––even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab, son of Zeruiah.