"And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days."
Commentary
Gill's Exposition
And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh,.... For though they burned the bodies, yet so as to preserve the bones; and these, together with the ashes of the parts burnt, they gathered up, and buried under a tree near this city; this tree is
said to be an oak, Ch1 10:12 ; so Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, was buried under an oak, Gen 35:8 . The Jews generally interred their dead under some oak, as aforementioned writer observes (q); pleased perchance with the parallel, as he expresses it, that as these plants, seemingly dead in winter, have every spring an annual resurrection, so men's dry bones shall have new sap put into them at the day of judgment: and fasted seven days; not that they ate and drank nothing all that time, but they fasted every day till evening, as the Jews used to do; so long it seems a man may live without eating, but not longer; See Gill on Exo 24:18 and see Gill on Kg1 19:8 ; this they did, as Kimchi thinks, in memory of the seven days Nahash the Ammonite gave them for their relief, in which time Saul came and saved them, Sa1 11:3 . (q) Pisgah-Sight of Palestine b. 2. ch. 2. p. 82. Next: 2 Kings (2 Samuel) Introduction Sacred Texts | Bible « Previous: John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible: 1 Kings (1 Sa... Index Next: John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible: 2 Kings (2 Sa... »
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Commentary
Gill's Exposition
And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh,.... For though they burned the bodies, yet so as to preserve the bones; and these, together with the ashes of the parts burnt, they gathered up, and buried under a tree near this city; this tree is
said to be an oak, Ch1 10:12 ; so Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, was buried under an oak, Gen 35:8 . The Jews generally interred their dead under some oak, as aforementioned writer observes (q); pleased perchance with the parallel, as he expresses it, that as these plants, seemingly dead in winter, have every spring an annual resurrection, so men's dry bones shall have new sap put into them at the day of judgment: and fasted seven days; not that they ate and drank nothing all that time, but they fasted every day till evening, as the Jews used to do; so long it seems a man may live without eating, but not longer; See Gill on Exo 24:18 and see Gill on Kg1 19:8 ; this they did, as Kimchi thinks, in memory of the seven days Nahash the Ammonite gave them for their relief, in which time Saul came and saved them, Sa1 11:3 . (q) Pisgah-Sight of Palestine b. 2. ch. 2. p. 82. Next: 2 Kings (2 Samuel) Introduction Sacred Texts | Bible « Previous: John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible: 1 Kings (1 Sa... Index Next: John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible: 2 Kings (2 Sa... »