I love the stories of David. And I like how we are getting to read David's Psalms right after we have read about the event he is writing about.

AS I read 2 Samuel 21:9b so all seven of them died together at the beginning of the barley harvest, I couldn't help but wonder why the barley harvest was mentioned. Then I realized Rizpah said with the bodies until the end of the barley harvest. So, I looked it up. Apparently this was a very rainy season, so I guess they could not get the bodies down from the mountain.

But, in reading in the concordance I found another something worth mentioning. The Gibeoites that Saul was guilty of murdering were the people that deceived Joshua into making a covenant with them. Joshua 9:3-27 (They brought him presents and said they were from a distant land.) That covenant was made 400 years before and under false pretense, but God still honored the covenant.