Quotes About Jabesh

So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

“Hold off for seven days,” replied the elders of Jabesh, “and let us send messengers throughout Israel. If there is no one to save us, we will surrender to you.”

Just then Saul was returning from the field, behind his oxen. “What troubles the people?” asked Saul. “Why are they weeping?” And they relayed to him the words of the men from Jabesh.

So they said to the messengers who had come, “Tell the men of Jabesh-gilead: ëDeliverance will be yours tomorrow by the time the sun is hot.í” And when the messengers relayed this to the men of Jabesh, they rejoiced.

When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.

When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard about everything the Philistines had done to Saul,