1 Samuel 31:13 “Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in…”

1 Samuel 31:13

Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

World English Bible

They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

American Standard Version

And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk-tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

Geneva Bible 1599

And tooke their bones and buried them vnder a tree at Iabesh, and fasted seuen dayes.

Darby Translation

And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

Young's Literal Translation

and they take their bones, and bury [them] under the tamarisk in Jabesh, and fast seven days.

Bible in Basic English

And their bones they put in the earth under a tree in Jabesh; and for seven days they took no food.

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Cross references

“their bones”

2 Samuel 21:12–14 Genesis 35:8 2 Samuel 2:4 2 Samuel 2:5

2 Samuel 21:12–14 · BSB

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…

Genesis 35:8 · BSB

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

2 Samuel 2:4 · BSB

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.”

2 Samuel 2:5 · BSB

So David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead to tell them, “The LORD bless you, because you showed this kindness to Saul your lord when you buried him.

“fasted seven”

Genesis 50:10

Genesis 50:10 · BSB

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.

Also

1 Samuel 22:6 2 Samuel 1:12

1 Samuel 22:6 · BSB

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

2 Samuel 1:12 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12all 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.

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