Zela

Zela was a small town in Benjamin near Gibeah (Joshua 18:28) that became the resting place of King Saul's family line. After a three-year famine revealed Saul's old bloodguilt against the Gibeonites (2 Samuel 21:1), David allowed the Gibeonites to execute seven of Saul's descendants. The concubine Rizpah kept watch over the bodies for months. Moved by her vigil, David recovered the bones of Saul and Jonathan from Jabesh-gilead, where the men had originally rescued them from the Philistines after Mount Gilboa, and buried them "in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father" (2 Samuel 21:14).