2 Samuel 2:5

2:5 So David sent messengers to the people of Jabesh Gilead and told them, “May you be blessed by the Lord because you have shown this kindness ¹  to your lord Saul by burying him.

2 Samuel 21:12

21:12 he ²  went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan ³  from the leaders ⁴  of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken ⁵  them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines ⁶  publicly exposed their corpses ⁷  after ⁸  they ⁹  had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

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¹ tn Or “loyalty.”

² tn Heb “David.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.

³ tn Heb “the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son.” See also v. 13.

⁴ tn Heb “lords.”

⁵ tn Heb “stolen.”

⁶ tc Against the MT, this word is better read without the definite article. The MT reading is probably here the result of wrong word division, with the letter ה (he) belonging with the preceding word שָׁם (sham) as the he directive (i.e., שָׁמָּה, samah, “to there”).

⁷ tn Heb “had hung them.”

⁸ tn Heb “in the day.”

⁹ tn Heb “Philistines.”