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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Jobesh (-Gilead)
Better known as Jabesh-gilead, a town in Gilead east of the Jordan. Its men stayed home from the war against Benjamin and were nearly wiped out for it, and their daughters were handed to Benjamin's survivors as wives. When Nahash the Ammonite besieged it, Saul rescued it. Years later its men took his body down from the walls of Beth-shan and buried it.
Better known as Jabesh-gilead, a town in Gilead east of the Jordan. Its men stayed home from the war against Benjamin and were nearly wiped out for it, and their daughters were handed to Benjamin's survivors as wives. When Nahash the Ammonite besieged it, Saul rescued it. Years later its men took his body down from the walls of Beth-shan and buried it.
Town in Gilead east of the Jordan, better known as Jabesh-gilead. Its men failed to join Israel's coalition against Benjamin and were nearly wiped out as punishment, until the tribe's survivors were given Jabesh-gilead's surviving virgin daughters as wives to preserve Benjamin's line (Judges 21:8-14). Generations later the Ammonite king Nahash besieged the town, and Saul's rescue of it was his first act as king, one that secured his authority over Israel (1 Sam. 11). After Saul's death in battle, the town's men risked their lives to recover his body from the walls of Beth-shan and gave it honorable burial (1 Sam. 31:11-13; 1 Chr. 10:11-12).
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- Judges 21:8
- 1 Samuel 11:1
- 1 Chronicles 10:11
