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:
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Gill's Exposition
And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son,.... Which had been buried there under an oak, Ch1 10:12,
and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged; the…
Barnes' Notes
From the street of Beth-shan - This was the wide place just inside the gate of an Oriental city, bounded therefore by the city wall (compare the marginal reference). Here, as the place of concourse,…
Adam Clarke
Took the bones of Saul - The reader will recollect that the men of Jabesh-gilead burned the bodies of Saul and his sons, and buried the remaining bones under a tree at Jabesh. See Sa1 31:12, Sa1…
Here we have, I. Saul's sons not only hanged, but hanged in chains, their dead bodies left hanging, and exposed, till the judgment ceased, which their death was to turn away, by the sending of rain…
Cambridge Bible
David went Touched by Rizpah's maternal devotion, and wishing to shew that he had no personal enmity to the house of Saul.
the men of Jabesh-gilead The citizens, lit. lordsor possessorsof…
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