Spread it for her, as a tent to dwell in; being informed that their bodies were not to be taken away speedily, as the course of the law was in other and ordinary cases, Deuteronomy 21:23, but were to continue there until God was entreated, and did remove the present judgment. And God was herein pleased to dispense with his own law, that it might plainly appear that these were not put to death by David for politic reasons, as that he and his sons might be freed from competitors, which doubtless David's enemies were ready to suggest; but by God's special command, who was pleased to execute this judgment upon them, as partly and principally for the punishment of Saul's sin, so secondarily for the stablishing of David's throne to himself and to his seed for ever, as he had promised. Upon the rock; in some convenient place in a rock, near adjoining. Until water dropped upon them out of heaven, i.e. until they were taken down; which was not to be done till God had given rain as a sign of his favour, and a mean to remove the famine, which was caused by the want of it. To rest on them, i.e. on their carcasses. Nor the beasts of the field; from which she might preserve herself and them by divers methods.
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2 Samuel 21:10
10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.