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1. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Jabesh-Gilead
   a town on the east of Jordan, on the top of one of the green
   hills of Gilead, within the limits of the half tribe of
   Manasseh, and in full view of Beth-shan. It is first mentioned
   in connection with the vengeance taken on its inhabitants
   because they had refused to come up to Mizpeh to take part with
   Israel against the tribe of Benjamin (Judg. 21:8-14). After the
   battles at Gibeah, that tribe was almost extinguished, only six
   hundred men remaining. An expedition went against Jabesh-Gilead,
   the whole of whose inhabitants were put to the sword, except
   four hundred maidens, whom they brought as prisoners and sent to
   "proclaim peace" to the Benjamites who had fled to the crag
   Rimmon. These captives were given to them as wives, that the
   tribe might be saved from extinction (Judg. 21).
   
     This city was afterwards taken by Nahash, king of the
   Ammonites, but was delivered by Saul, the newly-elected king of
   Israel. In gratitude for this deliverance, forty years after
   this, the men of Jabesh-Gilead took down the bodies of Saul and
   of his three sons from the walls of Beth-shan, and after burning
   them, buried the bones under a tree near the city (1 Sam.
   31:11-13). David thanked them for this act of piety (2 Sam.
   2:4-6), and afterwards transferred the remains to the royal
   sepulchre (21:14). It is identified with the ruins of ed-Deir,
   about 6 miles south of Pella, on the north of the Wady Yabis.
   

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