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Now it happened after the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, that he stayed two days in Ziklag.

Verse ConceptsTwo Days

On the third day a man came [unexpectedly] from Saul’s camp with his clothes torn and dust on his head [as in mourning]. When he came to David, he bowed to the ground and lay himself face down [in an act of great respect and submission].

Verse ConceptsBowingThe Third Day Of The WeekBowing Before DavidDust On The HeadThose Who Tore ClothesPraising Specific People

David said to him, “How did it go? Please tell me.” He answered, “The people have fled from the battle. Also, many of the people have fallen and are dead; Saul and Jonathan his son are also dead.”

Verse ConceptsIsrael FleeingWhat Manner?

So David said to the young man who informed him, “How do you know Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”

Verse Conceptssaul

And the young man who told him explained, “By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and there was Saul leaning on his spear, and the chariots and horsemen [of the Philistines] were close behind him.

Verse ConceptsChariotsChanceAttacking With ChariotsOther Supporting

They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and Jonathan his son, and for the Lord’s people and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword [in battle].

Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfEveningLossWeepingAction Until EveningFasting In MourningMourning The Death Of Others

Then David sang this dirge (funeral song) over Saul and his son Jonathan,

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Expression OfLamentingMourning The Death Of Others


O mountains of Gilboa,
Let not dew or rain be upon you, nor fields with offerings;
For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,
The shield of Saul, [dry, cracked] not anointed with oil.

Verse Conceptsdrought, physicaldewLack Of RainAnointing Things


“From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty,
The bow of Jonathan did not turn back,
And the sword of Saul did not return empty.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Uses OfArchers, MenPeople OvercomingKilling Many People


“Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely and friends in their lives,
And in their death they were not separated;
They were swifter than eagles,
They were stronger than lions.

Verse ConceptsFriendshipEaglesCompanionshipFast RunnersStrong Individuals

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

Verse ConceptsDavid, Reign OfAnointing KingsMaking Kings

So David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead, and said to them, “May you be blessed by the Lord because you showed this graciousness and loyalty to Saul your lord (king), and buried him.

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutKindnessMay God Bless!

So now, let your hands be strong and be valiant; for your lord Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah has anointed me king over them.”

Verse ConceptsAnointing KingsMaking KingsBe Courageous!

Now [Saul’s cousin] Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul’s army, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.

Verse ConceptsRank

Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he became king over Israel, and he reigned for two years. But the house of Judah followed David.

Verse ConceptsTwo YearsList Of Kings Of Israel

Now Abner the son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

So they stood up and went over by number, twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

Verse ConceptsTwelve Beings

There was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David; but David grew steadily stronger, while the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker [to the point of being powerless].

Verse ConceptsDavid, Reign OfHousesWarfare, Examples OfWarfare, Nature OfWeakness, PhysicalStrong IndividualsWithout StrengthCivil WarWarBattle

Now while war continued between the houses of Saul and David, Abner was proving himself strong in the house of Saul.

Verse ConceptsGreat IndividualsCivil War

Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah the daughter of Aiah; and Ish-bosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”

Verse ConceptsConcubinesSleep, PhysicalExtra Marital Sex Examplesmistress

Then Abner was very angry at the words of Ish-bosheth, and he said, “Am I a dog’s head [a despicable traitor] that belongs to Judah? Today I show loyalty and kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers and his friends, by not having you handed over to David; and yet you charge me today with guilt concerning this woman.

Verse ConceptsBlameAnger, HumanLoyaltyOffenceNamed People Angry With OthersPeople Of Judah

to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and establish the throne of David over Israel and Judah from Dan [in the north] to Beersheba [in the south].”

Verse ConceptsSaul And David

David said, “Good! I will make a covenant (treaty) with you, but I require one thing of you: you shall not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see me.”

So David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, to whom I was betrothed for [the price of] a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutForeskinsdowryBetrothalMarriage, Customs ConcerningCourtingEngagementOne Hundred

So Ish-bosheth sent and took her from her husband, from Paltiel the son of Laish [to whom Saul had given her].

Verse ConceptsTransferring Wives

When Saul’s son Ish-bosheth [king of Israel], heard that Abner had died in Hebron, he lost courage, and all Israel was horrified.

Verse ConceptsdiscouragementLosing Courage

Saul’s son had two men who were commanders of [raiding] bands [of soldiers]. One was named Baanah and the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite of the sons (tribe) of Benjamin (for Beeroth is also considered part of [the tribe of] Benjamin,

Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son whose feet were crippled. He was five years old when the news [of the deaths] of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. And the boy’s nurse picked him up and fled; but it happened that while she was hurrying to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

Verse ConceptsCripplesAccidentsFeetdisabilitiesLamenessNursesSuffering, Causes OfPeople TumblingHurt And Betrayalsaul

They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron, and said to the king, “Look, the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; thus the Lord has granted my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and on his descendants.”

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Specific People

when a man told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ thinking that he was bringing good news, I seized and killed him in Ziklag, to reward him for his news.

Verse ConceptsNewsGood News

In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out [to war] and brought Israel in [from battle]. And the Lord told you, ‘You shall shepherd My people Israel and be ruler over them.’”

Verse ConceptsGod, As ShepherdGoing Out And Coming InSaul And David

Then, as the ark of the Lord came into the City of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter [David’s wife], looked down from the window above and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she felt contempt for him in her heart [because she thought him undignified].

Verse ConceptsLeapingContempt, Examples OfHeart, Fallen And RedeemedSuperiorityBad Wives ExamplesLooking Through WindowsPeople Jumpingjumping

Then David returned to bless his household. But [his wife] Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, “How glorious and distinguished was the king of Israel today, who uncovered himself and stripped [off his kingly robes] in the eyes of his servants’ maids like one of the riffraff who shamelessly uncovers himself!”

Verse ConceptsFamilies, Examples OfBenedictionsIronySarcasmEmployers, Good ExamplesNudityPeople Stripping OffPeople Who Blessed Others

Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

Verse ConceptsBarren WomenBarrenness

But My lovingkindness and mercy will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

Verse ConceptsWarnings Against ApostasyApostasy, Ot ExamplesDeposingGod Showed His Lovingkindnesssaul

And David said, “Is there still anyone left of the house (family) of Saul to whom I may show kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”

Verse ConceptsDavid, Character OfGesturesHelpfulnessHousesGratitudeFamily And Friendsgrandfatherssaul

There was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba, so they called him to David. And the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” He said, “I am your servant.”

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyIs It Really?

And the king said, “Is there no longer anyone left of the house (family) of Saul to whom I may show the goodness and graciousness of God?” Ziba replied to the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan, [one] whose feet are crippled.”

Verse ConceptsCripplesLamenessFatherless, Examples Of

Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David and fell face down and lay himself down [in respect]. David said, “Mephibosheth.” And he answered, “Here is your servant!”

Verse ConceptsTributesBowing Before DavidBehold Me!saul

David said to him, “Do not be afraid, for I will certainly show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and will restore to you all the land of your grandfather Saul; and you shall always eat at my table.”

Verse ConceptsGrandparentsReinstatementRestitutionBenevolenceRestoring Thingsgrandfathersreassurance

Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “I have given your master’s grandson everything that belonged to Saul and to all his house (family).

Verse ConceptsGiving To Others

Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you as king over Israel, and I spared you from the hand of Saul.

Verse ConceptsFaultsCourage, Examples OfAnointing Kings

Then the king said, “And where is your master’s son [Mephibosheth]?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he remains in Jerusalem, for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will give me back the kingdom of my father.’”

Verse ConceptsGrandchildrenGrandparentsReinstating PeopleSaul And David

When King David came to Bahurim, a man named Shimei, the son of Gera, came out from there. He was of the family of Saul’s household and he was cursing continually as he came out.

Verse ConceptsCursing The Ungodlyharassment

The Lord has returned upon you all the bloodshed of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hands of Absalom your son. And behold, you are caught in your own evil, for you are a man of bloodshed!”

Verse ConceptsGod Makes Evil ReboundKings Of All Israel Or Judah

and a thousand men [from the tribe] of Benjamin with him. And Ziba, the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and twenty servants with him, rushed down to the Jordan before the king.

Verse ConceptsStewardshipFifteenTwentyA Thousand PeopleHasty Action

Then Mephibosheth the [grand]son of Saul came down to meet the king, but he had not cared for his feet, nor trimmed his mustache, nor washed his clothes from the day the king left until the day he returned in peace and safety.

Verse ConceptsGrandchildrenInjury To FeetFacial HairUnclean Things

There was famine in the days of David for three consecutive years; and David sought the presence (face) of the Lord [asking the reason]. The Lord replied, “It is because of Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfFamine, Examples OfFace Of GodGod's Activity In IsraelAnger Of God, Examples OfThree YearsFound GuiltyFamily Problemssaul

So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the sons (descendants) of Israel but of the remnant (survivors) of the Amorites. The Israelites had sworn [an oath] to [spare] them, but Saul in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah had sought to strike down the Gibeonites).

Verse ConceptsTribes Of IsraelZeal

The Gibeonites said to him, “We will not accept silver or gold belonging to Saul or his household (descendants); nor is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” David said, “I will do for you whatever you say.”

Verse ConceptsGoldLacking Money

let seven men [chosen] from his sons (descendants) be given to us and we will hang them before the Lord [that is, put them on display, impaled with broken legs and arms] in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen one of the Lord.” And the king said, “I will give them.”

Verse ConceptsSeven ChildrenPeople Hung To Death

But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the Lord’s oath that was between David and Saul’s son Jonathan.

So the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

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

Verse ConceptsTelling What People Did

Then David went and took the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the open square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them on the day when the Philistines had killed Saul in Gilboa.

Verse ConceptsSecrecyBonesPeople Hung To Death

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].

Verse ConceptsBones

They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father; and they did all that the king commanded. After that, God was moved by prayer for the land.

Verse ConceptsAnother's Burial PlaceGod Answered Prayer

David spoke the words of this song to the Lord when the Lord rescued him from the hands of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

Verse ConceptsDavid, Abilities OfThose Singing PraiseGod Saving From EnemiesBlindnessdeliverancesaul

He said:“The Lord is my rock and my fortress [on the mountain] and my rescuer;

Verse ConceptsGod, Titles And Names OfMetaphorsGod Being Our FortressGod My Salvation