2 Samuel 21:10-20

New American Standard Bible

^10 (A)And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until ^[a]it rained on them from the sky; and ^(B)she ^[b]allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day nor the wild animals by night. ¹¹ When it was reported to David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done, ¹² then David went and took ^(C)the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of ^(D)Beth-shan, ^(E)where the Philistines had hanged them on the day ^(F)the Philistines struck and killed Saul in Gilboa. 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 ^[c]hanged. ¹⁴ Then they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the country of Benjamin in ^(G)Zela, in the grave of his father Kish; So they did everything that the king commanded, and after that ^(H)God responded to prayer for the land.

¹⁵ Now when ^(I)the Philistines were at war with Israel again, David went down, and his servants with him; and when they fought against the Philistines, David became weary. ¹⁶ Then Ishbi-benob, who was ^(J)among the descendants of the ^[d]giant, the weight of whose spear was ^[e]three hundred shekels of bronze in weight, ^[f]had strapped on a new sword, and he ^[g]intended to kill David. ¹⁷ But ^(K)Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, saying, “^(L)You shall not go out again with us to battle, so that you do not extinguish ^(M)the lamp of Israel.”

^18 (N)Now it came about after this that there was war again with the Philistines at Gob; then ^(O)Sibbecai the Hushathite struck and killed Saph, who was among the descendants of the ^[h]giant. ¹⁹ And there was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite ^[i]killed ^[j]Goliath the Gittite, ^(P)the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. ²⁰ And there was war at Gath again, where there was a man of great stature who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also had been born ^(Q)to the ^[k]giant.