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1 Samuel 31:13

Jabesh
GriefFastingFaithfulness and loyalty

11 When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

12 all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.

Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.
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BSB
Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.
KJV
And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
WEB
They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
ASV
And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk-tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
DARBY
And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
BLB
And they took their bones and buried [them] under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.
ÅB
Deres ben tok de og begravde under tamarisken i Jabes, og så holdt de faste i syv dager.
OTB
Og de tok deres ben og la dem til hvile under tamarisk-treet i Jabesj, og holdt en faste i syv dager.
B1930
Deres ben tok de og begravde under tamarisken i Jabes, og så holdt de faste i syv dager.

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  • 2 Samuel 21:12–14

    he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.

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  • Genesis 50:10

    When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.

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  • 2 Samuel 1:12

    They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the people of the LORD and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

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  • 1 Samuel 22:6

    Soon Saul learned that David and his men had been discovered. At that time Saul was in Gibeah, sitting under the tamarisk tree on the hill at Gibeah, with his spear in hand and all his servants standing around him.

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  • Genesis 35:8

    Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth.

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  • 2 Samuel 2:4–5

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

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