John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 21:13
And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son ,.... Which had been buried there under an oak, 1 Chronicles 10:12 , and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged ; the seven sons of Saul, who had been lately hanged; who either had hung so long that their flesh was consumed, and the bones dropped upon the ground, from whence they gathered them; or they took them down and burnt the flesh off of them, and took the bones to bury them, which was... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 21:10-14
Here we have, I. Saul's sons not only hanged, but hanged in chains, their dead bodies left hanging, and exposed, till the judgment ceased, which their death was to turn away, by the sending of rain upon the land. They died as sacrifices, and thus they were, in a manner, offered up, not consumed all at once by fire, but gradually by the air. They died as anathemas, and by this ignominious usage they were represented as execrable, because iniquity was laid upon them. When our blessed Saviour was... read more