Judges 21:8

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⁸Then they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to assemble before the Lord at Mizpah?” They discovered that no one from Jabesh Gilead^(A) had come to the camp for the assembly.

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1 Samuel 11:1

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Saul Rescues the City of Jabesh

11 Nahash^[a]^(A) the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh Gilead.^(B) And all the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty^(C) with us, and we will be subject to you.”

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Footnotes

1 Samuel 11:1 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls gifts. Now Nahash king of the Ammonites oppressed the Gadites and Reubenites severely. He gouged out all their right eyes and struck terror and dread in Israel. Not a man remained among the Israelites beyond the Jordan whose right eye was not gouged out by Nahash king of the Ammonites, except that seven thousand men fled from the Ammonites and entered Jabesh Gilead. About a month later, ¹Nahash

1 Samuel 11:1 in all English translations

1 Samuel 31:11-13

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¹¹When the people of Jabesh Gilead^(A) heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, ¹²all their valiant men^(B) marched through the night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan and went to Jabesh, where they burned^(C) them. ¹³Then they took their bones^(D) and buried them under a tamarisk^(E) tree at Jabesh, and they fasted^(F) seven days.^(G)