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1 Chronicles 10:12

1 Chronicles 10:12
They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

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Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

1 Chronicles 10:8-14

Here, I. From the triumph of the Philistines over the body of Saul we may learn, 1. That the greater dignity men are advanced to the greater disgrace they are in danger of falling into. Saul's dead…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

took away i.e. from the walls of Beth-shan (so Pesh.).

to Jabesh Samuel adds "and burned them there." The Chronicler omits this statement perhaps because the bones were not destroyedby this burning;…

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