KJV King James Version
And they took their bones, and buried [them] under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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1 Samuel 31:13
And they took their bones, and buried [them] under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.
WEB World English Bible
They took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
ASV American Standard Version
And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk-tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and they take their bones, and bury them under the tamarisk in Jabesh, and fast seven days.
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 31
10 And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.
11 And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;
12 All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
13 And they took their bones, and buried [them] under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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וַיִּקְחוּ֙H3947 · la.qachto take: takeאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]עַצְמֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔םH6106 · e.tsemboneוַיִּקְבְּר֥וּH6912 · qa.varto buryתַֽחַת־H8478 · ta.chatunderneath: underהָאֶ֖שֶׁלH815 · e.sheltamariskבְּיָבֵ֑שָׁהH3003 · ya.veshJabesh (Gilead)וַיָּצֻ֖מוּH6684 · tsumto fastשִׁבְעַ֥תH7651 · she.vasevenיָמִֽים׃ פH3117 · yomday
Cross-references
2 Samuel 21:12-14And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:Genesis 50:10And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which [is] beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.1 Samuel 22:6When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that [were] with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants [were] standing about him;)2 Samuel 1:12And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.Genesis 35:8But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.2 Samuel 2:4-5And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, [That] the men of Jabeshgilead [were they] that buried Saul.
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