Bible Cross References
their bones
Genesis 35:8
Rebecca's nurse Deborah died and was buried beneath the oak south of Bethel. So it was named "Oak of Weeping."
2 Samuel 2:4
Then the men of Judah came to Hebron and anointed David as king of Judah. When David heard that the people of Jabesh in Gilead had buried Saul,
2 Samuel 2:5
he sent some men there with the message: "May the LORD bless you for showing your loyalty to your king by burying him.
2 Samuel 21:12-14
12
he went and got the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan from the people of Jabesh in Gilead. (They had stolen them from the public square in Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged the bodies on the day they killed Saul on Mount Gilboa.)
13
David took the bones of Saul and Jonathan and also gathered up the bones of the seven men who had been hanged.
14
Then they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan in the grave of Saul's father Kish, in Zela in the territory of Benjamin, doing all that the king had commanded. And after that, God answered their prayers for the country.
fasted seven
Genesis 50:10
When they came to the threshing place at Atad east of the Jordan, they mourned loudly for a long time, and Joseph performed mourning ceremonies for seven days.