Shmuel Alef 31:11

11 And when the inhabitants of Yavesh Gilead heard of that which the Pelishtim had done to Sha’ul;

Shmuel Alef 31:11 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 31:11

And the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead
Who lived on the other side Jordan, about eight miles from Bethshan, according to Fuller ^F16:

heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;
not only that they had got the victory over him, and routed his army, but had abused his body, and hung it up by way of reproach and ignominy; which they could not bear to hear of, remembering with gratitude the kindness he had shown to them, in delivering them out of the hands of Nahash the Ammonite, ( 1 Samuel 11:1-13 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Pisgah-Sight of Palestine, b. 2. ch. 2. p. 82.

Shmuel Alef 31:11 In-Context

9 And they cut off his rosh (head), and stripped off his keli, and sent through eretz Pelishtim all around, to publish it in the bais atzabim, and among the people.

10 And they put his keli in the Bais Ashtarot; and they hung up his body on the chomat Beit Shan.

11 And when the inhabitants of Yavesh Gilead heard of that which the Pelishtim had done to Sha’ul;

12 kol ish chayil arose, and went kol halailah, and took the geviyyat Sha’ul and the geviyyot of his banim from the chomat Beit Shan, and came to Yavesh, and cremated them there.

13 And they took their atzmot, and buried them under a tree at Yavesh, and underwent a tzom shivat yamim.