2 Kings 2:5
David therefore sent messengers to the men of Jabes Galaad, and said to them: Blessed be you to the Lord, who have shewn this mercy to your master Saul, and have buried him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Misit ergo David nuntios ad viros Jabes Galaad, dixitque ad eos : Benedicti vos Domino, qui fecistis misericordiam hanc cum domino vestro Saul, et sepelistis eum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀπέστειλεν Δαυεὶδ ἀγγέλους πρὸς τοὺς ἡγουμένους Ἰαβεὶς τῆς Γαλααδείτιδος, ⸆ καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτούς Εὐλογημένοι ὑμεῖς τῷ κυρίῳ, ὅτι πεποιήκατε τὸ ἔλεος τοῦ θεοῦ ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον ὑμῶν Σαούλ, καὶ ἐθάψατε αὐτόν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּשְׁלַ֤ח דָּוִד֙ מַלְאָכִ֔ים אֶל אַנְשֵׁ֖י יָבֵ֣ישׁ גִּלְעָ֑ד וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם בְּרֻכִ֤ים אַתֶּם֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר עֲשִׂיתֶ֜ם הַחֶ֣סֶד הַזֶּ֗ה עִם אֲדֹֽנֵיכֶם֙ עִם שָׁא֔וּל וַֽתִּקְבְּר֖וּ אֹתֽוֹ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine On Care to Be Had for the Dead, Section 11
11. In regard to that woful compassion which I have mentioned, are those praised, and by king David blessed, who to the dry bones of Saul and Jonathan afforded mercy of sepulture. But yet what mercy is that, which is afforded to them that have feeling of nothing? Or haply is this to be challenged back to that conceit of an infernal river which men unburied were not able to pass over? Far be this from the faith of Christians: else hath it gone most ill with so great a multitude of Martyrs, for whom there could be no burying of their bodies, and Truth did cheat them when It said, “Fear not them which kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do,” if these have been able to do to them so great evils, by which they were hindered to pass over to the places which they longed for. …