1 Chronicles 10:11

Jabesh-gilead's Tribute to Saul

11 When all Jabesh-gilead * heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,

1 Chronicles 10:11 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 31:11

(See Gill on 1 Samuel 31:11)

1 Chronicles 10:11 In-Context

9 So they stripped him and took his head and his armor and sent messengers around the land of the Philistines to carry the good news to their idols and to the people.

10 They put his armor in the house of their gods and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.

11 When all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,

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 they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

13 So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the LORD , because of the word of the LORD which he did not keep; and also because he asked counsel of a medium, making inquiry of it,