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Summary
And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
Their bones
Fasted seven
Bible References
Their bones
Genesis 35:8
Then died Debora, Rebekah's nurse, and was buried beneath Bethel under an oak. And the name of it was called the oak of lamentation.
2 Samuel 2:4
And the men of Judah came, and there anointed David king over the house of Judah. When it was told David, how the men of Jabesh in Gilead had buried Saul,
2 Samuel 21:12
he went and took the bones of Saul, and of Jonathan his son, and of the men of Jabesh in Gilead, which they had stolen from the street of Bet-Shean, where the Philistines had hanged them in the days when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa.
Fasted seven
Genesis 50:10
And when they came to the field of Atad beyond Jordan, there they made great and exceeding sore lamentation. And he mourned for his father seven days.