Rizpah: 2Sa 21:8, 2Sa 3:7 took sackcloth: 1Ki 21:27, Joe 1:18 from the: 2Sa 21:9, Deu 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! Deu 11:14, 1Ki 18:41-45, Jer 5:24, Jer 5:25, Jer 14:22, Hos 6:3, Joe 2:23, Zec 10:1 the birds: Gen 40:19, Eze 39:4 Reciprocal: Job 37:13 - for mercy Pro 30:17 - the ravens