12 And David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had (A)hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa.

13 So he brought thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

14 And the bones of Saul and of Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the grave of Kish his father: and when they had performed all that the King had commanded, God was then [a]appeased with the land.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 21:14 For where the magistrate suffereth faults unpunished, there the plague of God lieth upon the land.

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