Thematic Bible: Saul and his sons buried at
Thematic Bible
Jabesh-gilead » Saul and his sons buried at
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,
When the inhabiters of Jabesh in Gilead heard thereof what the Philistines had done to Saul, 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, and took their bones and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
And when all they of Jabesh in Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul, all the men of war arose and fetched away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh and buried the bones of them under an oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.