1 Samuel 31:13
◄  1 Samuel 31:13  ►
New International Version (©2011)
Then they took their bones and buried them under a tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then they took their bones and buried them beneath the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and fasted seven days.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Afterward, they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and fasted seven days.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They took their bones, buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted for seven days.

NET Bible (©2006)
They took the bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh; then they fasted for seven days.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They took the bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh. Then they fasted seven days.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

American King James Version
And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at 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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they took their bones and buried them in the wood of Jabes: and fasted seven days.

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

English Revised Version
And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
and they take their bones, and bury them under the tamarisk in Jabesh, and fast seven days.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

31:8-13 The Scripture makes no mention what became of the souls of Saul and his sons, after they were dead; but of their bodies only: secret things belong not to us. It is of little consequence by what means we die, or what is done with our dead bodies. If our souls are saved, our bodies will be raised incorruptible and glorious; but not to fear His wrath, who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell, is the extreme of folly and wickedness. How useless is the respect of fellow-creatures to those who are suffering the wrath of God! While pompous funerals, grand monuments, and he praises of men, honour the memory of the deceased, the soul may be suffering in the regions of darkness and despair! Let us seek that honour which cometh from God only.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh,.... For though they burned the bodies, yet so as to preserve the bones; and these, together with the ashes of the parts burnt, they gathered up, and buried under a tree near this city; this tree is said to be an oak, 1 Chronicles 10:12; so Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, was buried under an oak, Genesis 35:8. The Jews generally interred their dead under some oak, as aforementioned writer observes (q); pleased perchance with the parallel, as he expresses it, that as these plants, seemingly dead in winter, have every spring an annual resurrection, so men's dry bones shall have new sap put into them at the day of judgment:

and fasted seven days; not that they ate and drank nothing all that time, but they fasted every day till evening, as the Jews used to do; so long it seems a man may live without eating, but not longer; See Gill on Exodus 24:18 and see Gill on 1 Kings 19:8; this they did, as Kimchi thinks, in memory of the seven days Nahash the Ammonite gave them for their relief, in which time Saul came and saved them, 1 Samuel 11:3.

(q) Pisgah-Sight of Palestine b. 2. ch. 2. p. 82.

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Jabesh-Gilead's Tribute to Saul
11And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul; 12All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there. 13And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

John 11:19 and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother.
1 Samuel 22:6 Now Saul heard that David and his men had been discovered. And Saul was seated, spear in hand, under the tamarisk tree on the hill at Gibeah, with all his officials standing at his side.
2 Samuel 1:12 They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the LORD and for the nation of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
2 Samuel 11:26 When Uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.
2 Samuel 21:12 he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead. (They had stolen their bodies from the public square at Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hung them after they struck Saul down on Gilboa.)