People of the Bible
Mephibosheth
Family
- Father
- Saul
- Mother
- Rizpah
- Brothers and sisters
- Armoni, Ish-bosheth
- Half-brothers and sisters
- Abinadab, Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Merab, Michal
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
The name of Saul’s son by the concubine Rizpah (q.v.), the daughter of Aiah. He and his brother Armoni were with five others “hanged on a hill before the Lord” by the Gibeonites, and their bodies exposed in the sun for five months (2 Sam. 21:8-10).
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 1 verse
- 2 Samuel
- 21:8
The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.