Jabesh
And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and
Saul said, What [aileth] the people that they weep? And they
told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh....
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For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to
Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and
slew him, and reigned in his stead....
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Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against
Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make
a covenant with us, and we will serve thee....
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in the Bible is the name of the father of king Shallum of the
northern kingdom of ten tribes....
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ja'-besh (yabhesh): A short form of JABESH-GILEAD (which see)....
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-A city east of the Jordan River
Jud 21:8-15
-Beseiged by the Ammonites
1Sa 11:1-11
-Saul and his sons buried at
1Sa 31:11-13; 1Ch 10:11,12; 2Sa 2:4
-Bones of Saul and his sons removed from, by David, and buried
at Zelah
2Sa 21:12-14...
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(dry).
1. Father of Shallum, the fifteenth king of Israel.
2Ki 15:10,13,14
2. Jabesh-gilead, or Jabesh in the territory of
Gilead. In its widest sense Gilead included the half tribe of
Manasseh, 1Ch 27:21 as well as the tribes of Gad and Reuben,
Nu 32:1-42 east of the Jordan; and of the cities of Gilead,
Jabesh was the chief. It is first men...
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dry. (1.) For Jabesh-Gilead (1 Sam. 11:3,9,10).
(2.) The father of Shallum (2 Kings 15:10, 13, 14),
who
usurped the throne of Israel on the death of
Zachariah....
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