Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

And 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.

Amplified

They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted [as a sign of mourning and respect] for 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.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And they will take their bones and bury under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they will fast seven days.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

NET Bible

They took the bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh; then they fasted for seven days.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

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

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

עצם 
`etsem 
Usage: 126

and buried
קבר 
Qabar 
Usage: 133

אשׁל 
'eshel 
Usage: 3

at Jabesh
יבישׁ יבשׁ 
Yabesh 
Usage: 24

and fasted
צוּם 
Tsuwm 
fast, at all
Usage: 21

שׁבעה שׁבע 
Sheba` 
Usage: 395

Context Readings

Saul And Jonathan Die On Mount Gilboa

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 Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there. 13 They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

Cross References

Genesis 50:10

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

2 Samuel 21:12-14

David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa.

1 Samuel 22:6

Now Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.

Genesis 35:8

And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So he called its name Allon-bacuth.

2 Samuel 1:12

And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the LORD and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

2 Samuel 2:4-5

And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, "It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,"

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