Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and took their bones and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
New American Standard Bible
They took their bones and
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
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.
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.
Themes
Burial » Places used for » Under trees
Burial » Burying places » Tombs » King saul's
Fasting » Examples of » Israel
Fasting » In times of bereavement » Of the people of jabesh-gilead, for saul and his sons
Fasting » National--exemplified » Men of jabesh-gilead
Jabesh-gilead » Saul and his sons buried at
Jonathan » Son of saul » Buried by inhabitants of jabesh-gilead
Kings » Who reigned over all israel » saul
Mourning » For the dead » Fasting
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Samuel 31:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Saul And Jonathan Die On Mount Gilboa
12 they arose as many as were men of war and went all night and took the carcass of Saul and the carcasses of his sons from the walls of Bet-Shean and brought them to Jabesh and burnt them there, 13 and took their bones and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
Cross References
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.
2 Samuel 21:12-14
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.
1 Samuel 22:6
And Saul heard of it: for David was known, and also the men that were with him. And as Saul sat in Gibeah under a grove upon a high bank with his spear in his hand and all his men about him,
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 1:12
And they mourned, wept and fasted until evening - for Saul, and Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel, because they were overthrown with the sword.
2 Samuel 2:4-5
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,