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1 Chronicles 10:12 Explained in Context
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Verse 12. 12They arose, all the valiant men, 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.
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Role in This Section
This verse closes the thought unit with its stated result or transition: “They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Philistine display meets Jabesh-gilead's burial care.”
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 10:8–12
Read 1 Chronicles 10:12 with 10:8–12. The selected wording supplies one closing in the thought unit with its stated result or transition; the surrounding verses supply the relationships and outcome summarized here: Philistines strip and display Saul's remains, while Jabesh-gilead's valiant men retrieve and bury the bodies and fast.
Why It Needs Context
1 Chronicles 10:12 depends on 10:8–12; isolating “They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his…” would detach a supporting name, action, quotation, number, object, or transition from “Philistine display meets Jabesh-gilead's burial care.”
Read 1 Chronicles 10:8–12 together
Why these verses belong together: 1 Chronicles 10:8–12 forms the complete movement “Philistine display meets Jabesh-gilead's burial care”: Philistines strip and display Saul's remains, while Jabesh-gilead's valiant men retrieve and bury the bodies and fast.
Verse 8. 8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
Verse 9. 9 And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people.
Verse 10. 10 And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
Verse 11. 11 And when all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
Verse 12. 12 They arose, all the valiant men, 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.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
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Exact location: 1 Chronicles 10:8–12, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
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