1 Samuel 31:11
When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
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1 Samuel 31:11
When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
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Numbers 16:27
So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.
Numbers 16:32
The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.
Numbers 16:33
So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.
Joshua 7:24
Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.
Joshua 7:25
Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
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Numbers 25:4
Yahweh said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.”
Deuteronomy 21:22
If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
Deuteronomy 21:23
his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
2 Samuel 21:6
let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh.” The king said, “I will give them.”
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Judges 21:10
The congregation sent twelve thousand of the most valiant men there, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
Judges 21:11
This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”
Judges 21:12
They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
Judges 21:13
The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.
Judges 21:14
Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead. There still weren’t enough for them.
Judges 21:15
The people grieved for Benjamin, because Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
Judges 21:16
Then the elders of the congregation said, “How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”
Judges 21:17
They said, “There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
Judges 21:18
However, we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, ‘Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.’ ”
Judges 21:19
They said, “Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.”
Judges 21:20
They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
Judges 21:21
and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
Judges 21:22
It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them; otherwise you would now be guilty.’ ”
Judges 21:23
The children of Benjamin did so, and took wives for themselves according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them.
Judges 21:24
The children of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they each went out from there to his own inheritance.
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Judges 21:25
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.
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1 Samuel 2:4
“The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.
1 Samuel 2:5
Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.
1 Samuel 2:6
“Yahweh kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.
1 Samuel 2:7
Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.
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1 Samuel 11:4
Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people, then all the people lifted up their voice and wept.
1 Samuel 11:5
Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, “What ails the people that they weep?” They told him the words of the men of Jabesh.
1 Samuel 11:6
God’s Spirit came mightily on Saul when he heard those words, and his anger burned hot.
1 Samuel 11:7
He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces, then sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever doesn’t come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen.” The dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out as one man.
1 Samuel 11:8
He counted them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
1 Samuel 11:10
Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you.”
1 Samuel 11:12
The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”
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1 Samuel 28:1
In those days, the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, “Know assuredly that you will go out with me in the army, you and your men.”
1 Samuel 29:1
Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek; and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel.
1 Samuel 29:2
The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish.
1 Samuel 31:2
The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
1 Samuel 31:3
The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.
1 Samuel 31:4
Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me!” But his armor bearer would not, for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell on it.
1 Samuel 31:5
When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.
1 Samuel 31:6
So Saul died with his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men that same day together.
1 Samuel 31:7
When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
1 Chronicles 10:1
Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.
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1 Kings 4:12
Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;
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Lamentations 5:12
Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.
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