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 fighting men marched all night and took the dead bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan. They came back to Jabesh and burned the bodies. 13 They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

Cross References

Genesis 50:10

They mourned loudly for a long time at the threshing place at Atad east of the Jordan. Joseph performed mourning ceremonies for seven days.

2 Samuel 21:12-14

David took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead. They had stolen them from the public square of Beth Shean, where the Philistines hung them the day they killed Saul at Gilboa.

1 Samuel 22:6

Saul heard that David and his men were found. Saul stayed in Gibeah under the tamarisk tree at the worship site. He held his spear in his hand. All his officials stood around him.

Genesis 35:8

Deborah died. She was the servant who cared for Rebekah from childhood. She was buried near Bethel, under the holy tree. They named it Allon-bacuth (weeping tree).

2 Samuel 1:12

They grieved and mourned and fasted until evening for Saul and Jonathan and for Israel, the people of Jehovah, because so many had been killed in battle.

2 Samuel 2:4-5

Then the men of Judah came to Hebron. They anointed David as king of Judah. David heard that the people of Jabesh-gilead (Jabesh in Gilead) buried Saul.

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