JABESH-GILEAD

Passages on this topic · 28

• Judges 21:8

  They said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah?” Behold, no one came from Jabesh Gilead to the camp to the assembly.

• Judges 21:9

  For when the people were counted, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead there.

• Judges 21:10

  The congregation sent twelve thousand of the most valiant men there, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

• Judges 21:11

  This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”

• Judges 21:12

  They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

• Judges 21:13

  The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.

• Judges 21:14

  Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for them.

• Judges 21:15

  The people grieved for Benjamin, because Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

• 1 Samuel 11:1

  Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.”

• 1 Samuel 11:2

  Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make it with you, that all your right eyes be gouged out. I will make this dishonor all Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 11:3

  The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days, that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then, if there is no one to save us, we will come out to you.”

• 1 Samuel 11:4

  Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people, then all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

• 1 Samuel 11:5

  Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, “What ails the people that they weep?” They told him the words of the men of Jabesh.

• 1 Samuel 11:6

  God’s Spirit came mightily on Saul when he heard those words, and his anger burned hot.

• 1 Samuel 11:7

  He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever doesn’t come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen.” The dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out as one man.

• 1 Samuel 11:8

  He counted them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

• 1 Samuel 11:9

  They said to the messengers who came, “Tell the men of Jabesh Gilead, ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will be rescued.’” The messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.

• 1 Samuel 11:10

  Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you.”

• 1 Samuel 11:11

  On the next day, Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the middle of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

• 1 Samuel 31:11

  When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

• 1 Samuel 31:12

  all the valiant men arose, 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 burned them there.

• 1 Samuel 31:13

  They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

• 2 Samuel 2:4

  The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, “The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul.”

• 2 Samuel 21:12

  So 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 killed Saul in Gilboa;

• 2 Samuel 21:13

  and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son. They also gathered the bones of those who were hanged.

• 2 Samuel 21:14

  They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer for the land.

• 1 Chronicles 10:11

  When all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,

• 1 Chronicles 10:12

  all the valiant men arose, 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.