John Gill's Exposition on 1 Samuel 31:13

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And they took their bones, and buried [them] under a tree at Jabesh, etc.] 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, (<131012>1 Chronicles 10:12); so Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, was buried under an oak, (<013508>Genesis 35:8). The Jews generally interred their dead under some oak, as aforementioned writer observes f580; 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 “<022418>Exodus 24:18”) and see Gill “<111908>1 Kings 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, (<091103>1 Samuel 11:3). FOOTNOTES ft1 -- T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 14. 2. ft2 -- Demonstrat. Evangel. Prop. 4. p. 199. ft3 -- Apud Joseph. Antiqu. l. 7. c. 5. sect. 2. ft4 -- Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 30. ft5 -- De loc. Heb. fol. 88. K. ft6 -- Palestin. Illustrat. tom. 2. p. 581. ft7 -- Theatrum Terrae Sanct. p. 30. So Sandys’s Travels, l. 3. p. 157. ft8 -- Travels of the Patriarchs, etc. p. 122. ft9 -- Valer. Maxim. l. 1. c. 3. Vid. D. Herbert de Cherbury de Relig. Gent. c. 3. p. 22. ft10 -- Diodor. Sicul. Bibliothec. l. 3. p. 212. Harpocration in voce saboi, Lucian. Concil. deor. sect. 4. Cicero de legibus. l. 2. Aristophan vespae, v. 9, 10. Aves, 582. & Scholia in ib. Lysistrate, p. 860. & Scholia in ib. ft11 -- Antiqu. l. 5. c. 11. sect. 5. ft12 -- Apud Kimchium in loc. ft13 -- Trad. Heb. in lib. Reg. fol. 74. H. ft14 -- µypa tja hnm “unam portionem duarum facicrum”, Sanctius Belgae. ft15 -- Sic Stockins, p. 79. ft16 -- hwhyw “quanquam Jehovah”, Piscator. ft17 -- hm[rh rwb[b “propterea quod intonabat contra eam”, Piscator. ft18 -- Laert. in Vit. Socrat. p. 112. ft19 -- Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Yoma, c. 7. sect. 1. ft20 -- Shoched Tob apud Yalkut, par. 2. fol. 12. 4. ft21 -- Seder Olam Rabba, c. 13. p. 37. ft22 -- Misn. Sotah. c. 3. sect. 8. ft23 -- T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 31. 2. ft24 -- µyçna [rz “semen virorum”, Montanus. ft25 -- Misn. Nazir, c. 9. sect. 5. ft26 -- T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 31. 1. ft27 -- Misn. Yoma, c. 1. sect. 3, 5, 7. ft28 -- T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 31. 2. Jarchi in loc. ft29 -- jwr tçq “dura spiritu”, Pagninus, Montanus. ft30 -- Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 14. c. 13. ft31 -- µymyh twpqtl “in revolutionibus dierum”, Montanus; so Piscator. ft32 -- Onomastic. Sacr. p. 418, 419, 487. ft33 -- Apud Weemse’s Observ. Nat. c. 18. p. 76. ft34 -- “Quamdiu” lwaç, h. e. “expetitus aut requisitur”, Peter Martyr; “quoties a Jehova postulatur”, Piscator. ft35 -- Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. ft36 -- Observat. Nat. c. 18. p. 77. ft37 -- T. Megillah, fol. 14. 1. ft38 -- qt[ “durum”, Vatablus, Drusius, Piscator; so R. Isaiah. ft39 -- “Vetera”, V. L. “vetus”, Pagninus, Montanus. ft40 -- tw[d la “Deus scientiarum”, V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Drusius. ft41 -- wnktn alw “ipsi directa sunt”, Pagninus. ft42 -- “Non disponuntur”, Junius & Tremellius; “non numerantur”, so some in Vatablus; “no…

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