Jabesh-gilead

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• So they asked, "Was anyone absent when we presented ourselves to the LORD at Mizpah?" And they discovered that no one from Jabesh-gilead had attended. - Judges 21:8



• For after they counted all the people, no one from Jabesh-gilead was present. - Judges 21:9



• So they sent twelve thousand warriors to Jabesh-gilead with orders to kill everyone there, including women and children. - Judges 21:10



• Among the residents of Jabesh-gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan. - Judges 21:12



• Then the men of Benjamin returned to their homes, and the four hundred women of Jabesh-gilead who were spared were given to them as wives. But there were not enough women for all of them. - Judges 21:14



• And when their fathers and brothers come to us in protest, we will tell them, `Please be understanding. Let them have your daughters, for we didn't find enough wives for them when we destroyed Jabesh-gilead. And you are not guilty of breaking the vow since you did not give your daughters in marriage to them.' " - Judges 21:22



• About a month later,* King Nahash of Ammon led his army against the Israelite city of Jabesh-gilead. But the citizens of Jabesh asked for peace. "Make a treaty with us, and we will be your servants," they pleaded.1 - 1 Samuel 11:1



• So Saul sent the messengers back to Jabesh-gilead to say, "We will rescue you by noontime tomorrow!" What joy there was throughout the city when that message arrived! - 1 Samuel 11:9



• But when the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, - 1 Samuel 31:11



• Then Judah's leaders came to David and crowned him king over the tribe of Judah. When David heard that the men of Jabesh-gilead had buried Saul, - 2 Samuel 2:4



• he went to the people of Jabesh-gilead and asked for the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan. (When Saul and Jonathan had died in a battle with the Philistines, it was the people of Jabesh-gilead who had retrieved their bodies from the public square of the Philistine city of Beth-shan.) - 2 Samuel 21:12



• But when the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, - 1 Chronicles 10:11

^{New Living Translation Bible used with permission Tyndale House Publishers.}