📖WEB · 1 Chronicles 10:11
What does 1 Chronicles 10:11 mean?
"When all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,"
— 1 Chronicles 10:11 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
They stripped him, and took his head and his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to their idols, and to the people.
They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.
When all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,
and didn’t inquire of Yahweh. Therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.
Explanation
This short verse serves as a narrative hinge in the account of King Saul's death. It simply states that the people of Jabesh Gilead, a town located across the Jordan River in Gilead, received word of the humiliating treatment the Philistines had inflicted on Saul's body after his death
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