1 Samuel 31:10

31:10 They placed Saul’s armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths ¹  and hung his corpse on the city wall of Beth Shan.

1 Samuel 31:12

31:12 all their warriors set out and traveled throughout the night. They took Saul’s corpse and the corpses of his sons from the city wall of Beth Shan and went ²  to Jabesh, where they burned them.

2 Samuel 21:12

21:12 he ³  went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan ⁴  from the leaders ⁵  of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken ⁶  them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines ⁷  publicly exposed their corpses ⁸  after ⁹  they ¹⁰  had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

[31:10]  ¹ sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. See the note on the same term in 7:3.

[31:12]  ² tc The translation follows the MT, which vocalizes the verb as a Qal. The LXX, however, treats the verb as a Hiphil, “they brought.”

[21:12]  ³ tn Heb “David.” For stylistic reasons the name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation.

[21:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son.” See also v. 13.

[21:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “lords.”

[21:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “stolen.”

[21:12]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ tn Heb “had hung them.”

[21:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “in the day.”

[21:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Philistines.”