One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Jabesh. Every Jabesh in the Bible
- verses
- 18
- first named
- Judges 21:8
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 10:12
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 32.40°N · 35.68°E
Tell el Maqlub (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 3 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Jabesh in the text
Jabesh, also known as Jabesh-gilead, was a town located in the region of Gilead, east of the Jordan River. The city is first mentioned in the book of Judges, where the inhabitants refused to join the Israelites in fighting against the tribe of Benjamin (Judges 21:8-14). As a result, the town was attacked, and the virgins of Jabesh were given as wives to the surviving Benjamites. Later, during the reign of King Saul, the Ammonites besieged Jabesh, and Saul came to their rescue, defeating the Ammonites and solidifying his position as king (1Sa.11.1-11). After Saul's death, the men of Jabesh bravely retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the Philistines and buried them (1Sa.31.11-13; 1Ch.10.11-12). David later praised the men of Jabesh for their loyalty and kindness to Saul (2Sa.2.4-7). The town's location is uncertain, but it was likely situated in northern Gilead, possibly near modern-day Wadi Yabis in Jordan.
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Stands in the same events as
- Nahash1 event
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 18, across 4 books. The name is written 21 times in them.
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Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Judges 21Jabesh-gilead was found absent from the assembly and was put to the sword, except for four hundred young women.
- 1 Samuel 11Jabesh was besieged, begged for seven days, received promise of deliverance, and rejoiced when the messengers returned.
- 1 Samuel 31The men of Jabesh retrieved and burned the bodies of Saul and his sons, buried their bones, and fasted seven days.
- 2 Samuel 2Jabesh-gilead is remembered as the place whose men buried Saul.
- 1 Chronicles 10Jabesh received the bodies of Saul and his sons, and their bones were buried beneath its oak.
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