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Myles Coverdale Bible

2 Samuel 21:13

and broughte them vp from thence, and gathered them together wt the bones of them that were hanged.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   Jabesh-Gilead;   Jonathan;   Thompson Chain Reference - Confession of Sin;   Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Mephibosheth;   Rizpah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - David;   Jonathan;   Saul;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Burial;   David;   Jabesh (1);   Jonathan;   Saul;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Beth-Shean;   Burial;   Court Systems;   Jonathan;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Haggai;   Israel;   Rizpah;   Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gibeonites ;   Mephibosheth ;   Punishment;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jabesh;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Burial;   Cremation;   Salvation;   Samuel, Books of;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Burial and sepulchers;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Corpse;   Rizpah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
David had the bones brought from there. They gathered up the bones of Saul’s family who had been hanged
Hebrew Names Version
and he brought up from there the bones of Sha'ul and the bones of Yonatan his son: and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.
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.
Lexham English Bible
He brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there, and they gathered the bones of the executed.
English Standard Version
And he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan; and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.
New Century Version
David brought the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from Gilead. Then the people gathered the bodies of Saul's seven sons who were hanged on stakes.
New English Translation
David brought the bones of Saul and of Jonathan his son from there; they also gathered up the bones of those who had been executed.
Amplified Bible
He brought up the bones of Saul and of Jonathan his son from there, and they gathered the bones of those who had been hanged [with their arms and legs broken].
New American Standard Bible
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 hanged.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So hee brought thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Ionathan his sonne, and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
Legacy Standard Bible
And he brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there, and they gathered the bones of those who had been hanged.
Contemporary English Version
David had their bones taken to the land of Benjamin and buried in a side room in Saul's family burial place. Then he gave orders for the bones of the men who had been hanged to be buried there. It was done, and God answered prayers to bless the land.
Complete Jewish Bible
and he brought up from there the bones of Sha'ul and the bones of Y'honatan his son. They also gathered the bones of those who had been hanged.
Darby Translation
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
David brought the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from Jabesh Gilead and buried them with the bodies of the seven men who were hanged.
George Lamsa Translation
And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of those who were slain;
Good News Translation
David took the bones of Saul and Jonathan and also gathered up the bones of the seven men who had been hanged.
Literal Translation
And he brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from there, and they gathered up the bones of those hanged.
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.
Bible in Basic English
And he took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from that place; and they got together the bones of those who had been put to death by hanging.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he brought thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Ionathan his sonne, and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
King James Version (1611)
And hee brought vp from thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Ionathan his sonne, and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he carried up thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and gathered the bones of them that had been hanged.
English Revised 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.
Berean Standard Bible
So David had the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan brought from there, along with the bones of those who had been hanged.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Dauid bar out fro thennus the boonys of Saul, and the boonys of Jonathas, his sone; and thei gaderiden the boonys of hem that weren crucified, and birieden tho with the boonys of Saul and of Jonathas, his sone, in the lond of Beniamyn, in the side of the sepulcre of Cys, fadir of Saul.
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,
Update Bible Version
and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son: and they gathered the bones of those that were hanged.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
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.
New King James Version
So he brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there; and they gathered the bones of those who had been hanged.
New Living Translation
So David obtained the bones of Saul and Jonathan, as well as the bones of the men the Gibeonites had executed.
New Life Bible
David brought the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan. They gathered the bones of those who had been hanged.
New Revised Standard
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.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and he brought up from thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, - and they gathered together the bones of them who had been crucified;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he brought from thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, and they gathered up the bones of them that were crucified,
Revised Standard Version
and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan; and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there, and they gathered the bones of those who had been hanged.

Contextual Overview

10 Then toke Rispa the doughter of Aia a sack cloth, & spred it vpon the rock in the begynnynge of the haruest, tyll the water from the heauen dropped vpo them, and suffred not the foules of the heauen to rest on them on the daye tyme, nether the wylde beestes of the felde on the nighte season. 11 And it was tolde Dauid what Rispa the doughter of Aia Sauls concubyne had done. 12 And Dauid wente and toke the bones of Saul and the bones of Ionathas his sonne from ye citesens at Iabes in Gilead (which they had stollen from ye strete at Bethsan, where ye Philistynes had hanged the, what tyme as the Philistynes had smytten Saul vpon mount Gilboa) 13 and broughte them vp from thence, and gathered them together wt the bones of them that were hanged. 14 And the bones of Saul and of his sonne Ionathas buried they in ye londe of Ben Iamin, besyde ye graue of his father Cis. So after this was God at one with the londe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 16:10
And the angel of the LORDE sayde vnto her: Beholde, I wil so encreace yi sede, that it shall not be nombred for multitude.
Genesis 17:20
And as concernynge Ismael also, I haue herde thy request: Beholde, I haue blessed him, and will increase him, and multiplye him exceadingly. Twolue prynces shal he beget, and I wyll make a greate nacion of him.
Genesis 21:12
Neuertheles God sayde vnto him: let it not displease the because of the childe and the hand mayde: What so euer Sara hath sayde vnto the, folowe it, for in Isaac shall the sede be called vnto the.
Genesis 21:18
Aryse and take the childe, and holde him by the hande, for I wyll make a greate people of him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, 1 Chronicles 10:12;

and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged; the seven sons of Saul, who had been lately hanged; who either had hung so long that their flesh was consumed, and the bones dropped upon the ground, from whence they gathered them; or they took them down and burnt the flesh off of them, and took the bones to bury them, which was not usually done u.

u Lipsins de Cruce, l. 2. c. 16.


 
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