Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

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 and all the men of valour arise, and go all the night, and take the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, from the wall of Beth-Shan, and come in to Jabesh, and burn them there, 13 and they take their bones, and bury them under the tamarisk in Jabesh, and fast seven days.

Cross References

Genesis 50:10

And they come unto the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they lament there, a lamentation great and very grievous; and he maketh for his father a mourning seven days,

2 Samuel 21:12-14

and David goeth and taketh the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the possessors of Jabesh-Gilead, who had stolen them from the broad place of Beth-Shan, where the Philistines hanged them, in the day of the Philistines smiting Saul in Gilboa;

1 Samuel 22:6

And Saul heareth that David hath become known, and the men who are with him, and Saul is abiding in Gibeah, under the grove in Ramah, and his spear is in his hand, and all his servants standing by him.

Genesis 35:8

And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, dieth, and she is buried at the lower part of Bethel, under the oak, and he calleth its name 'Oak of weeping.'

2 Samuel 1:12

and they mourn, and weep, and fast till the evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Jehovah, and for the house of Israel, because they have fallen by the sword.

2 Samuel 2:4-5

And the men of Judah come, and anoint there David for king over the house of Judah; and they declare to David, saying, 'The men of Jabesh-Gilead are they who buried Saul.'

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