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| == People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70263" /> ==
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| <p> [[Jabesh]] and '''Jabesh-Gilead''' (''jâ'besh-gĭl'e-ad'' ), ''dry Gilead.'' [[A]] city east of the Jordan; destroyed by the Israelites, Judges 21:8-14; delivered from [[Nahash]] by Saul, 1 Samuel 11:1-11, and in gratitude therefor, its people brought the bodies of Saul and his sons, which the [[Philistines]] hung upon the walls of Bethshan, to Jabesh, and caused them to be buried in a wood near by. 1 Samuel 31:11-13. David blessed them, 2 Samuel 2:4-6, but afterward removed the bones to Saul's ancestral burying-place. 2 Samuel 2:4-6; 2 Samuel 21:12-14. Robinson identifies it with ed-Deir, 23 miles southeast of the Sea of [[Galilee]] on the south side of [[Wady]] Yabis. Merrill, however, would identify [[Jabesh]] with the ruins of a town found about 7 miles from [[Pella]] and about 2300 feet above the [[Jordan]] valley. This seems to conform to the Biblical statements concerning the place. </p> | | Jabesh <ref name="term_36018" /> |
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| | <p> ( "dry".) Gilead. 1 Samuel 11:1 ; 1 Samuel 11: 9, etc. Chief of Gilead's cities. For not having come to [[ Mizpeh]] at Israel's command, under an imprecatory oath against all defaulters, when the tribes began war with [[ Benjamin]] ( Judges 20: 1-3; Judges 21: 5), its males were all killed, and its virgins, 400 in number, were given in marriage to the 600 Benjamites who survived the war with [[ Israel]] ( Judges 21:1; Judges 21:8-14 ). The carrying into execution the oath at the close of the war was mainly influenced by the desire to provide wives for Benjamin, as their oath precluded themselves from giving their daughters. Subsequently it recovered itself, and being threatened by the [[ Ammonite]] king, Nabash, with the excision of its citizens' right eyes as a reproach upon Israel, was rescued by Saul. </p> <p> In gratitude the inhabitants, when he and his three sons were slain by the [[ Philistines]] ( 1 Samuel 31: 8; 1 Samuel 31:13 ), took down by night their corpses from the walls of Bethshan, where they had been exposed; then burnt the bodies and buried the bones under a tree, and kept a funeral fast seven days. David, in generous forgetfulness of his own wrongs from Saul, blessed them for their kindness to their master, praying the Lord to requite it, and promising to requite it as if it were a kindness to himself ( 2 Samuel 2: 5- 6); afterwards he removed the bones to the sepulchre of Saul' s father [[ Kish]] at [[ Zelah]] ( 2 Samuel 21:13-14). The name survives in the wady Yates, flowing from the [[ E.]] into the [[Jordan ]] below Bethshan; the ruin ed Deir, [[ S.]] of the wady, is on the site ( Robinson, Biblical Research 3:319). It was six miles from Pella, on a mountain toward Gerasa. </p> |
| == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73238" /> ==
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| <p> '''Ja'besh.''' ''(dry).'' </p> <p> 1. Father of Shallum, the fifteenth king of Israel. 2 Kings 15:10; 2 Kings 15:13-14. </p> <p> 2. Jabesh-gilead, or Jabesh in the territory of Gilead. In its widest sense, [[Gilead]] included the half tribe of Manasseh, 1 Chronicles 27:21, as well as the tribes of [[Gad]] and Reuben, Numbers 32:1-42, east of the Jordan; and of the cities of Gilead, Jabesh was the chief. </p> <p> It is first mentioned in Judges 21:8-14. Being attacked, subsequently, by Nahash, the Ammonite, it gave Saul an opportunity of displaying his prowess in its defence. 1 Samuel 11:1-15. [[Eusebius]] places it beyond the Jordan, six miles from Pella on the mountain road to Gerasa; where its name is probably preserved in the ''Wady Yabes'' . </p>
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| == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16367" /> ==
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| <p> [[A]] city in the half-tribe of [[Manasseh]] east of the Jordan generally called Jabesh-gilead because situated within the territory commonly called Gilead. Eusebius places it six miles from Pella, towards Gerasa. It was sacked by the [[Israelites]] for refusing to aid in chastising the Benjamites, Judges 21:8-10 </p> <p> At a later day, it was besieged by the Ammonites, and relieved by Saul; in gratitude for which service the men of Jabesh-gilead rescued the dead bodies of Saul and his sons from the insults of the Philistines, 1 Samuel 11:1-15 31:11-13 2 Samuel 2:5 . </p>
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| == Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_32135" /> ==
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| <li> The father of [[ Shallum]] ( 2 Kings 15:10, 13, 14 ), who usurped the throne of [[Israel ]] on the death of Zachariah. <div> <p> '''Copyright Statement''' These dictionary topics are from [[M.G.]] Easton [[M.A., ]] [[D.D.,]] Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by [[Thomas]] Nelson, 1897. Public Domain. </p> <p> '''Bibliography Information''' Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Jabesh'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/j/jabesh.html. 1897. </p> </div> </li> | |
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| == Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_80916" /> ==
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| <p> or [[Jabesh-Gilead,]] the name of a city in the half tribe of Manasseh, east of Jordan. Naash, king of the Ammonites, besieged [[Genesis]] 2 : 1 Samuel 11:1 , &c. The inhabitants were friendly to Saul and his family, 1 Samuel 31:11-12 . </p>
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| == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_51953" /> ==
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| <p> <strong> [[Jabesh]] </strong> . Father of Shallum, who usurped the kingdom of Israel by the assassination of king Zechariah ( 2 Kings 15:10; 2 Kings 15:13-14 ). </p>
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| == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_41385" /> ==
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| 1 Samuel 11:1 1 Samuel 31:1 2 Kings 15:13[[Jabesh-Gilead]] | |
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| == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_66931" /> ==
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| <p> Father of Shallum king of Israel. 2 Kings 15:10,13,14 . </p>
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| == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_45670" /> ==
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| <p> (Heb. Yabesh', יָבֵשׁ, ''dry,'' as in Job 41:25; Ezekiel 17:24, etc.; also written fully ''Yabeysh', יָבֵישׁ'' , 1 Samuel 11:1; 1 Samuel 11:3; 1 Samuel 11:5; 1 Samuel 11:10; 1 Samuel 31:11; 2 Samuel 2:4-5; 1 Chronicles 10:12, first time), the name of a place and also of a man. </p> <p> '''1.''' (Sept. in Samuel Ι᾿αβίς '','' in Chronicles Γαβείς ) The shorter form ( 1 Samuel 11:3; 1 Samuel 11:9-10; 1 Samuel 20:12-13; 1 Chronicles 10:12, only) of the name of the city elsewhere called [[Jabesh-Gilead]] (See [[Jabesh-Gilead]]) (q.v.). </p> <p> '''2.''' (Sept. Ι᾿αβείς v. ''r. Ἀβείς,'' Joseph. Ιάβησος '', Ant.'' Ix, 11, 1.) The father of Shallum, which latter usurped the throne of Israel by the assassination of [[Zachariah]] ( 2 Kings 15:10; 2 Kings 15:13-14). [[B.C.]] ante 770. </p>
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| == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15929" /> ==
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| <p> Ja´besh or Jabesh Gilead, a town beyond the Jordan, in the land of Gilead. </p> <p> Jabesh belonged to the half-tribe of Manasseh, and was sacked by the Israelites for refusing to join in the war against [[Benjamin]] . It is chiefly memorable for the siege it sustained from Nahash, king of the Ammonites, the raising of which formed the first exploit of the newly-elected king, Saul, and procured his confirmation in the sovereignty. The inhabitants had agreed to surrender, and to have their right eyes put out (to incapacitate them from military service), but were allowed seven days to ratify the treaty. In the meantime Saul collected a large army, and came to their relief (1 Samuel 11). This service was gratefully remembered by the Jabeshites; and, about forty years after, when the dead bodies of Saul and his sons were gibbeted on the walls of Bethshan, on the other side of the river, they made a forced march by night, took away the bodies, and gave them honorable burial (1 Samuel 31). </p> <p> Jabesh still existed as a town in the time of Eusebius, who places it six miles from Pella towards Gerasa; but the knowledge of the site is now lost, unless we accept the conclusion of Mr. Buckingham, who thinks it may be found in a place called Jehaz or Jejaz, marked by ruins upon a hill, in a spot not far from which, according to the above indications, Jabesh must have been situated. </p>
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| == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_5126" /> ==
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| <p> ''''' jā´besh ''''' ( יבשׁ , <i> ''''' yābhēsh ''''' </i> ): [[A]] short form of [[Jabesh-Gilead]] (which see). </p>
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| | | <ref name="term_36018"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/fausset-s-bible-dictionary/jabesh+(1) Jabesh from Fausset's Bible Dictionary]</ref> |
| <ref name="term_70263"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/people-s-dictionary-of-the-bible/jabesh Jabesh from People's Dictionary of the Bible]</ref> | |
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| <ref name="term_73238"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/smith-s-bible-dictionary/jabesh Jabesh from Smith's Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_16367"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/american-tract-society-bible-dictionary/jabesh Jabesh from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_32135"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/easton-s-bible-dictionary/jabesh Jabesh from Easton's Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_80916"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/watson-s-biblical-theological-dictionary/jabesh Jabesh from Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_51953"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-bible/jabesh Jabesh from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_41385"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/holman-bible-dictionary/jabesh Jabesh from Holman Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_66931"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/morrish-bible-dictionary/jabesh Jabesh from Morrish Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_45670"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/jabesh Jabesh from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_15929"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/kitto-s-popular-cyclopedia-of-biblial-literature/jabesh Jabesh from Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_5126"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/jabesh Jabesh from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref>
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Jabesh [1]
("dry".) Gilead. 1 Samuel 11:1; 1 Samuel 11:9, etc. Chief of Gilead's cities. For not having come to Mizpeh at Israel's command, under an imprecatory oath against all defaulters, when the tribes began war with Benjamin ( Judges 20:1-3; Judges 21:5), its males were all killed, and its virgins, 400 in number, were given in marriage to the 600 Benjamites who survived the war with Israel ( Judges 21:1; Judges 21:8-14). The carrying into execution the oath at the close of the war was mainly influenced by the desire to provide wives for Benjamin, as their oath precluded themselves from giving their daughters. Subsequently it recovered itself, and being threatened by the Ammonite king, Nabash, with the excision of its citizens' right eyes as a reproach upon Israel, was rescued by Saul.
In gratitude the inhabitants, when he and his three sons were slain by the Philistines ( 1 Samuel 31:8; 1 Samuel 31:13), took down by night their corpses from the walls of Bethshan, where they had been exposed; then burnt the bodies and buried the bones under a tree, and kept a funeral fast seven days. David, in generous forgetfulness of his own wrongs from Saul, blessed them for their kindness to their master, praying the Lord to requite it, and promising to requite it as if it were a kindness to himself ( 2 Samuel 2:5-6); afterwards he removed the bones to the sepulchre of Saul's father Kish at Zelah ( 2 Samuel 21:13-14). The name survives in the wady Yates, flowing from the E. into the Jordan below Bethshan; the ruin ed Deir, S. of the wady, is on the site (Robinson, Biblical Research 3:319). It was six miles from Pella, on a mountain toward Gerasa.
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