Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is 1 Chronicles 10:1-14. Let’s go!
1 Chronicles 10:11-12 (NIV)
11 When all the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard of everything the Philistines had done to Saul,
12 all their valiant men went and took the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. Then they buried their bones under the great tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.
On verses 1-12: Saul is wounded in battle against the Philistines. So that he would not be killed by his enemies, Saul falls on his own sword and eventually dies on the hill of Gilboa. His sons Jonathan, Malki-Shua and Abinadab are killed as well. The Philistines find Saul’s body, strip him, cut off his head, and hang his dead body and the bodies of his dead sons on the city wall of the Philistine town of Beth Shan (1 Samuel 31:10). They also place Saul’s head in the temple of their god Dagon (v10). When they saw that Saul and his sons had died, most Israelites abandon their towns and flee for their lives (v7), with one important exception: when the people of Jabesh Gilead hear about what the Philistines have done to Saul’s body, the men of Jabesh-Gilead enter the Philistine city of Beth Shan, take down the bodies of Saul and his sons, bring them back to Jabesh Gilead and give them an honorable burial.