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Jabesh-gilead

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jabesh-gilead , in the Bible, city of Gilead. After the affair at Gibeah, wives were provided for the Benjamites by sacking Jabesh. Later, Saul saved Jabesh, and at his death the grateful city buried him. Author not available, JABESH-GILEAD. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
Jabesh-Gilead
A Dictionary of the Bible Jabesh-Gilead A town on the east of the River Jordan . Saul came to the rescue of ... desecration by the Philistines (1 Sam. 31: 12). David praised the heroes of Jabesh-Gilead for this, at the same time pointing out that the kingship had now been ... Read more
Saul
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ... I and II. He was anointed king by the prophet Samuel , as a concession to popular pressure, after delivering the town of Jabesh-Gilead from Ammonite oppression. Samuel's rejection of Saul and Saul's jealousy of David led to Saul's decline. He died battling ... Read more

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Journal of Biblical Literature; 4/1/2007; Frolov, Serge; 787 words ; ... aggressive actions of a Transjordanian ruler who threatened Jabesh-Gilead, a Transjordanian city (11:1-2). Two of four deliverers listed ... Israelites led by Saul repulse the Ammonite onslaught on Jabesh-Gilead; the narrative implicitly links Samuel's discourse in 1 Samuel ... Read more
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The Boston Globe; 6/1/1989; James L. Franklin, Globe Staff; 787 words ; ... of the Ammonites, had not gouged out. But there were seven thousand men who had escaped from the Ammonites and had entered Jabesh-gilead." The passage was added because the manuscript was older than other copies of First Samuel from which scholars have worked ... Read more
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Jerusalem Post; 6/6/1995; ELYAKIM HA'ETZNI; 687 words ; ... 100 virgins from those they vanquished. And all the Ammonites supported their king, Nahash, when he told the townsmen of Jabesh-Gilead: "On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes ... " (I Samuel 11, 2). Is ... Read more
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The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/2008; Walters, Stanley D; 787 words ; ... of Saul and Jonathan have never come home following their death in battle but are still across the Jordan in the city of Jabesh-Gilead (1 Sam 31:11-13). He has them brought back and interred in Saul's ancestral burial grounds, upon which occurrence Yhwh responds ... Read more

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