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-- Before long, the descent of copious showers, or perhaps an order of the king, gave Rizpah the satisfaction of releasing the corpses from their ignominious exposure; and, incited by her pious example, David ordered the remains of Saul and his sons to be transferred from their obscure grave in Jabesh-gilead to an honorable interment in the family vault at Zelah or Zelzah (1Sa 10: 2), now
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They came to Jabesh-gilead, where they found the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan, placed them in a coffin and recrossed the Jordan.
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A cycle of violence ensues, resulting in the slaughter of many Benjaminite men, women, and children (20: 35 – 48), the slaughter of most of the inhabitants of the city of Jabesh-gilead (21: 8 – 12), and the kidnapping of young women at Shiloh (21: 15 – 24).
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And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard of that which the
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In the first repetition, the Israelites act as Benjamin's agents, stealing the virgins of Jabesh Gilead; [28] in the second repetition, the Benjaminites are authorized to steal their wives for themselves and promised immunity from retribution.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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Philistines had done to Saul; all 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 came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
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First they kill the male inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead, ravish four hundred daughters of the town and present them to Benjamin so that the tribe can re-populate itself.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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Shallum, son of Jabesh; Pekah, son of Remaliah, murders Pekahiah, son of Manehem; and Hoshea, son of Elah, murders Pekah, son of
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Zimri; Ahab murders Naboth; Jehu murders Ahab and Joram; the inhabitants of Jerusalem murder Amaziah, son of Joash; Shallum, son of Jabesh, murders Zachariah, son of Jeroboam; Menahhem murders
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