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Fasting in Times of Bereavement of the People of Jabesh-Gilead, for Saul and his Sons

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1 Samuel 31:13 Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.
1 Chronicles 10:12 all their men of valor set out and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.