2 Samuel 4:4

4:4 Now Saul’s son Jonathan had a son who was crippled in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan arrived from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but in her haste to get away, he fell and was injured. ¹  Mephibosheth was his name.

2 Samuel 4:8

4:8 They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David in Hebron, saying to the king, “Look! The head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life! The Lord has granted vengeance to my lord the king this day against ²  Saul and his descendants!”

2 Samuel 21:8

21:8 So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aiah’s daughter Rizpah whom she had born to Saul, and the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab ³  whom she had born to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

2 Samuel 21:12

21:12 he ⁴  went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan ⁵  from the leaders ⁶  of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken ⁷  them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines ⁸  publicly exposed their corpses ⁹  after ¹⁰  they ¹¹  had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

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¹ tn Heb “and was lame.”

² tn Heb “from.”

³ tc The MT reads “Michal” here, but two Hebrew manuscripts read “Merab,” along with some LXX manuscripts. Cf. 1 Sam 18:19.

⁴ tn Heb “David.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.

⁵ tn Heb “the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son.” See also v. 13.

⁶ tn Heb “lords.”

⁷ tn Heb “stolen.”

⁸ 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”).

⁹ tn Heb “had hung them.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “in the day.”

¹¹ tn Heb “Philistines.”