Discovery Box2 Samuel 9:3 
Context9:3 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
Context17:20 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
Context21:12 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
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 12 that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers 13 for the land.
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 For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.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
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).
