¹⁹ So^[a] when the time came for Merab,^(A) Saul’s daughter, to be given to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.^(B)

⁸ But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aiah’s daughter Rizpah,^(A) whom she had borne to Saul, together with the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab,^[a] whom she had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.^(B)

⁹ He handed them over to the Gibeonites, who killed them and exposed their bodies on a hill before the Lord. All seven of them fell together; they were put to death^(A) during the first days of the harvest, just as the barley harvest was beginning.^(B)