1 Samuel 31:13
What does 1 Samuel 31:13 mean?
A plain-English look at 1 Samuel 31:13 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk-tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk-tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And their bones they put in the earth under a tree in Jabesh; and for seven days they took no food.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and they take their bones, and bury <FI>them<Fi> under the tamarisk in Jabesh, and fast seven days.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And they took their bones, and buried them in the wood of Jabes: and fasted seven days.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
Context
v.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 Beth-shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
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Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 22:6
And Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him: now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk-tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.
- 2 Samuel 1:12
and they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Jehovah, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
- Genesis 35:8
And Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.
- Genesis 50:10
And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
- 2 Samuel 2:4
And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, The men of Jabesh-gilead were they that buried Saul.
- 2 Samuel 21:12
And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines slew Saul in Gilboa;
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