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2 Samuel 21:7–14

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7But the king spared aMephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, bbecause of the oath of Yahweh which was between them, between David and Saul’s son Jonathan.

8So the king took the two sons of aRizpah the daughter of Aiah, Armoni and Mephibosheth whom she had borne to Saul, and the five sons of 1bMerab the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the cMeholathite.

9Then he gave them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they 1hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, so that the seven of them fell together; and they were put to death in the first days of harvest at athe beginning of barley harvest.

10aAnd Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until 1it rained on them from the sky; and bshe 2allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.

11Then it was told to David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

12So David went and took athe bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the open square of bBeth-shan, cwhere the Philistines had hanged them on the day dthe Philistines struck down Saul in Gilboa.

13And he brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there, and they gathered the bones of those who had been 1hanged.

14Then they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin in aZela, in the grave of Kish his father; thus they did all that the king commanded, and afterwards bGod was moved by the entreaty for the land.

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2 Samuel 21:14: And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. And they did all that the king commanded. And after that God responded to the plea for the land.

Footnotes

  1. 1As in Gr and Heb mss; M.T. Michal
  2. 1Lit exposed them
  3. 1Lit water was poured
  4. 2Lit gave
  5. 1Lit exposed

Cross references

  1. a2 Sam 4:4; 9:10
  2. b1 Sam 18:3; 20:12–17; 23:18; 2 Sam 9:1–7
  3. a2 Sam 3:7
  4. b1 Sam 18:19
  5. c1 Kin 19:16
  6. aEx 9:31, 32
  7. aDeut 21:23
  8. b1 Sam 17:44, 46
  9. a1 Sam 31:11–13
  10. bJosh 17:11
  11. c1 Sam 31:10
  12. d1 Sam 31:3, 4
  13. aJosh 18:28
  14. bJosh 7:26; 2 Sam 24:25