2 Samuel 21:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the people of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hung them up, on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:21

You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you nor bounteous fields! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, anointed with oil no more.

2 Samuel 1:6

The young man reporting to him said, “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and there was Saul leaning on his spear, while the chariots and the horsemen drew close to him.

2 Samuel 2:4

Then the people of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, “It was the people of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,”

2 Samuel 21:11

When David was told what Rizpah daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done,

2 Samuel 21:13

He brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan, and they gathered the bones of those who had been impaled.

1 Chronicles 10:1

Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

1 Chronicles 10:12

all the valiant warriors got up and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh. Then they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.

1 Chronicles 10:8

The next day when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

Joshua 17:11

Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, Ibleam and its villages, the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages (the third is Naphath).

1 Samuel 28:4

The Philistines assembled and came and encamped at Shunem. Saul gathered all Israel, and they encamped at Gilboa.

1 Samuel 31:1

Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and many fell on Mount Gilboa.

1 Samuel 31:3

The battle pressed hard on Saul, and the archers found him, and he was badly wounded by them.

1 Samuel 31:4

Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, so that these uncircumcised may not come and thrust me through and make sport of me.” But his armor-bearer was unwilling, for he was terrified. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.