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12 every valiant soldier[a] got up, removed the bodies of Saul and his sons, took them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the tamarisk[b] tree in Jabesh. Then they fasted for seven days. 13 So Saul died for his transgressions; that is, he acted unfaithfully to the Lord by transgressing the message from the Lord (which he did not keep), by consulting a medium for advice, 14 and by not seeking counsel[c] from the Lord, who therefore put him to death and turned the kingdom over to Jesse’s son David.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 10:12 Lit. man
  2. 1 Chronicles 10:12 Or great
  3. 1 Chronicles 10:14 The Heb. verb to seek counsel sounds like the name Saul