2 Samuel 6:20

6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, ¹  Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. ²  She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished ³  himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool ⁴  might do!”

2 Samuel 21:12

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

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¹ tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”

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 The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

³ tn Heb “honored.”

⁴ tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”

⁵ tn Heb “David.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.

⁶ tn Heb “the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son.” See also v. 13.

⁷ tn Heb “lords.”

⁸ tn Heb “stolen.”

⁹ 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”).

¹⁰ tn Heb “had hung them.”

¹¹ tn Heb “in the day.”

¹² tn Heb “Philistines.”