Jabesh-gilead
Jabesh-gilead appears in 20 verses of the Bible, from Judges to 1 Chronicles.
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- Near Tell el Maqlub, 81 km northeast of Jerusalem
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So they asked, “Who among the tribes of Israel did not join us at Mizpah when we assembled in the presence of the Lord?” And they discovered that no one from Jabesh-gilead had attended the assembly.
Judges 21:8 · Read the chapter -
But there were some scoundrels who complained, “How can this man save us?” And they scorned him and refused to bring him gifts. But Saul ignored them. [Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been grievously oppressing the people of Gad and Reuben who lived east of the Jordan River. He gouged out the right eye of each of the Israelites living there, and he didn’t allow anyone to come and rescue them. In fact, of all the Israelites east of the Jordan, there wasn’t a single one whose right eye Nahash had not gouged out. But there were 7,000 men who had escaped from the Ammonites, and they had settled in Jabesh-gilead.]
1 Samuel 10:27 · Read the chapter -
Then the men of Judah came to David and anointed him king over the people of Judah. When David heard that the men of Jabesh-gilead had buried Saul,
2 Samuel 2:4 · Read the chapter -
But when everyone in Jabesh-gilead heard about everything the Philistines had done to Saul,
1 Chronicles 10:11 · Read the chapter
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