2 Samuel 21:11
What does 2 Samuel 21:11 mean?
A plain-English look at 2 Samuel 21:11 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And news was given to David of what Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, one of Saul's wives, had done.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And it is declared to David that which Rizpah daughter of Aiah, concubine of Saul, hath done,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And it was told David, what Respha the daughter of Aia, the concubine of Saul, had done.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
Context
v.10And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured upon them from heaven; and she suffered neither the birds of the heavens to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
v.11This passage
v.12And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines slew Saul in Gilboa;
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 2:4
And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, The men of Jabesh-gilead were they that buried Saul.
- Ruth 2:11
And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been showed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law since the death of thy husband; and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people that thou knewest not heretofore.
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