1st Samuel Chapter 31 verse 13 Holy Bible
And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk-tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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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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And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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They took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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and they take their bones, and bury `them' under the tamarisk in Jabesh, and fast seven days.
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Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) A tree in Jabesh.--A tree, that is "the well-known" tamarisk (eshel). For Saul's love for trees see as an instance 1Samuel 22:6. The men of Jabesh-Gilead well remembered this peculiar fancy of their dead king, and under the waving branches of their own beautiful and famous tamarisk they tenderly laid the remains of their dead hero and his princely sons.Evidently King David, at a subsequent period, fetched away these royal remains, and had them reverently interred in the family sepulchre of Kish, the father of Saul, in Zelah of Benjamin (2Samuel 21:12; 2Samuel 21:14).And fasted seven days.--This was the period the sons of Israel mourned for Jacob at the threshing floor of Atad beyond Jordan (Genesis 1:10). The grateful men of Jabesh-Gilead thus paid the last honours to the fallen Saul.It is probable that the Talmudic rule which enjoins strict mourning for seven days (fasting was mourning of the strictest kind) was originally based on these two historic periods of mourning recorded in the case of the great ancestor of the tribes, Jacob, and of the first King Saul, although the curious tradition preserved in the Babylonian Talmud gives a special reason for the period--seven days. Rav. Chisda said: The soul of the deceased mourns over him the first seven days; for it is said, Job 14:22, "and his soul shall mourn over him." Rav. Jehudah said: If there are no mourners to condole with, ten men sit down where the death took place. Such a case happened in the neighbourhood of Rav. Jehudah. After the seven days of mourning, the deceased appeared to Rav. Jehudah in a dream, and said "Mayest thou be comforted as thou hast comforted me."--Treatise Shabbath, fol. 152, Colossians 2. . . . Parallel Commentaries ...HebrewThen they tookוַיִּקְחוּ֙ (way·yiq·ḥū)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine pluralStrong's 3947: To taketheir bonesעַצְמֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם (‘aṣ·mō·ṯê·hem)Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine pluralStrong's 6106: A bone, the body, the substance, selfsameand buriedוַיִּקְבְּר֥וּ (way·yiq·bə·rū)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine pluralStrong's 6912: To interthem underתַֽחַת־ (ṯa·ḥaṯ-)PrepositionStrong's 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu ofthe tamarisk treeהָאֶ֖שֶׁל (hā·’e·šel)Article | Noun - masculine singularStrong's 815: A tamarisk tree, a grove of any kindin Jabesh,בְּיָבֵ֑שָׁה (bə·yā·ḇê·šāh)Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singularStrong's 3003: Jabesh -- a place in Gilead, also an Israeliteand they fastedוַיָּצֻ֖מוּ (way·yā·ṣu·mū)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine pluralStrong's 6684: To abstain from food, fastsevenשִׁבְעַ֥ת (šiḇ·‘aṯ)Number - masculine singular constructStrong's 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite numberdays.יָמִֽים׃ (yā·mîm)Noun - masculine pluralStrong's 3117: A dayJump to PreviousBones Buried Bury Earth Fast Fasted Food Jabesh Seven Tamarisk Tamarisk-Tree Tree
