2 Samuel 4:8

4:8 They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David in Hebron, saying to the king, “Look! The head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life! The Lord has granted vengeance to my lord the king this day against ¹  Saul and his descendants!”

2 Samuel 21:12

21:12 he ²  went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan ³  from the leaders ⁴  of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken ⁵  them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines ⁶  publicly exposed their corpses ⁷  after ⁸  they ⁹  had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

[4:8]  ¹ tn Heb “from.”

[21:12]  ² tn Heb “David.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.

[21:12]  ³ tn Heb “the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son.” See also v. 13.

[21:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “lords.”

[21:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “stolen.”

[21:12]  ⁶ 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”).

[21:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “had hung them.”

[21:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “in the day.”

[21:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “Philistines.”