2 Samuel 9:3

9:3 The king asked, “Is there not someone left from Saul’s family, ¹  that I may extend God’s kindness to him?” Ziba said to the king, “One of Jonathan’s sons is left; both of his feet are crippled.”

2 Samuel 17:20

17:20 When the servants of Absalom approached the woman at her home, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman replied to them, “They crossed over the stream.” Absalom’s men ²  searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem. ³ 

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.)

2 Samuel 21:14

21:14 They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin at Zela in the grave of his father Kish. After they had done everything ¹²  that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers ¹³  for the land.

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¹ tn Heb “house.”

² tn Heb “they”; the referents (Absalom’s men) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

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 For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.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

¹² tc Many medieval Hebrew mss have here כְּכֹל (kÿkhol, “according to all”).

¹³ tn Heb “was entreated.” The verb is an example of the so-called niphal tolerativum, with the sense that God allowed himself to be supplicated through prayer (cf. GKC 137 §51.c).