Discovery Box2 Samuel 21:12 
Context21:12 he 1 went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan 2 from the leaders 3 of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken 4 them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines 5 publicly exposed their corpses 6 after 7 they 8 had killed Saul at Gilboa.)
2 Samuel 21:14
Context21:14 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 9 that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers 10 for the land.
1 tn Heb “David.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.
2 tn Heb “the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son.” See also v. 13.
3 tn Heb “lords.”
4 tn Heb “stolen.”
5 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”).
6 tn Heb “had hung them.”
7 tn Heb “in the day.”
8 tn Heb “Philistines.”
9 tc Many medieval Hebrew
10 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).
