2 Samuel 2:4
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4 (A)Then the men of Judah came, and there they (B)anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, (C)“The men of Jabesh Gilead were the ones who buried Saul.”
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2 Samuel 2:5
New King James Version
5 So David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, (A)“You are blessed of the Lord, for you have shown this kindness to your lord, to Saul, and have buried him.
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2 Samuel 21:12-14
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12 Then David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of (A)Jabesh Gilead who had stolen them from the street of [a]Beth Shan, where the (B)Philistines had hung them up, after the Philistines had struck down Saul in Gilboa. 13 So he brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there; and they gathered the bones of those who had been hanged. 14 They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in (C)Zelah, in the tomb of Kish his father. So they performed all that the king commanded. And after that (D)God heeded the prayer for the land.
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- 2 Samuel 21:12 Beth Shean, Josh. 17:11
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