How to Pronounce Rizpah

What does Rizpah mean?

Rizpah means “bed; extension; a coal”.

Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.

Who was Rizpah?

Coal; hot stone, the daughter of Aiah, and one of Saul’s concubines. She was the mother of Armoni and Mephibosheth (2 Sam. 3:7; 21:8, 10, 11). It happened that a grievous famine, which lasted for three years, fell upon the land during the earlier half of David’s reign at Jerusalem. This calamity was sent “for Saul and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.” David inquired of the Gibeonites what satisfaction they demanded, and was answered that nothing would compensate for the wrong Saul had done to them but the death of seven of Saul’s sons.

Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.

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