KJV King James Version
And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
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2 Samuel 21:13
And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So David had the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan brought from there, and they also gathered the bones of those who had been hanged.
WEB World English Bible
and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son: and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.
ASV American Standard Version
and he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son: and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and he bringeth up thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, and they gather the bones of those hanged,
Surrounding context — 2 Samuel 21
10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
13 And he brought up from 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 Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.
15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.
16 And Ishbibenob, which [was] of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear [weighed] three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new [sword], thought to have slain David.
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וַיַּ֤עַלH5927 · a.lahto ascend: riseמִשָּׁם֙H8033 · shamthereאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]עַצְמ֣וֹתH6106 · e.tsemboneשָׁא֔וּלH7586 · sha.ulSaulוְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]עַצְמ֖וֹתH6106 · e.tsemboneיְהוֹנָתָ֣ןH3083 · ye.ho.na.tanJonathanבְּנ֑וֹH1121 · benson: childוַיַּ֣אַסְפ֔וּH622 · a.saphto gatherאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]עַצְמ֖וֹתH6106 · e.tsemboneהַמּוּקָעִֽים׃H3363 · ya.qato dislocate/hang
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