Bible verse
Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.
1 Samuel 31:13 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Samuel 31.
9 They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among their people.
10 They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.
11 When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
12 all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.
13 Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.
KJV
And they took their bones, and buried [them] under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
ASV
And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk-tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
ERV
And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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