1 Samuel 25:1

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Summary

And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

Samuel

1 Samuel 28:3

Lamented

In his house

The wilderness

Bible References

Samuel

Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had removed the mediums and the spiritists (soothsayers) from the land.

Lamented

When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning for the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim (mourning of Egypt); it is west of the Jordan.

When all the congregation saw that Aaron had died, all the house of Israel wept (mourned) for him thirty days.

So the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab for thirty days; then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

Some devout men buried Stephen, and mourned greatly over him [expressing a personal sense of loss].

In his house

Then he would return to Ramah, because his home was there; and there he judged Israel, and there he built an altar to the Lord. Cross references: 1 Samuel 7:2 : 2 Sam 6:3, 4; 1 Chr 13:5-7 end of crossrefs

So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up [to the tabernacle] and struck and killed Joab, and he was buried at his own house in the wilderness [of Judah].

So Manasseh slept with his fathers [in death], and they buried him in [the garden of] his own house. And his son Amon became king in his place.

“All the kings of the nations, all of them lie [dead] in glorious array,
Each one in his own sepulcher.

The wilderness

and the Horites in their mountainous country of Seir, as far as El-paran, which is on the border of the wilderness.

He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

and the Israelites set out on their journey from the Wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud [of the Lord’s guiding presence] settled down in the Wilderness of Paran.

Afterward the people moved on from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.

So Moses sent spies from the Wilderness of Paran at the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the Israelites.

Woe to me, for I sojourn in Meshech,
and I live among the tents of Kedar [among hostile people]!