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Jabesh Gilead in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ja'-besh-gil'-e-ad (yabhesh gil`adh; or simply yabhish, "dry"): A city East of the Jordan, in the deliverance of which from Nahash the Ammonite Saul's military prowess was first displayed (1 Sam 11:1 ff). At an earlier time the inhabitants failed to share with their brethren in taking vengeance upon Benjamin. This laxity was terribly punished,...

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Jabesh Gilead Scripture - 2 Samuel 2:5

And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabeshgilead, and said unto them, Blessed [be] ye of the LORD, that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord, [even] unto Saul, and have buried him....

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Jabesh Gilead Scripture - 1 Chronicles 10:11

And when all Jabeshgilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,...

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Jabesh Gilead in Naves Topical Bible

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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Jabesh Gilead Scripture - 1 Samuel 11:9

And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by [that time] the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed [it] to the men of Jabesh; and they were gl...

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Jabesh Gilead in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(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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Jabesh Gilead Scripture - Judges 21:10

And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children....

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Jabesh Gilead Scripture - Judges 21:12

And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which [is] in the land of Canaan....

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Jabesh in Hitchcock's Bible Names

dryness; confusion; shame...

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Jabesh Gilead in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a town on the east of Jordan, on the top of one of the green hills of Gilead, within the limits of the half tribe of Manasseh, and in full view of Beth-shan. It is first mentioned in connection with the vengeance taken on its inhabitants because they had refused to come up to Mizpeh to take part with Israel against the tribe of Benjamin (J...

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