All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Burnt them, or the flesh, reserving the ashes and bones to be buried, as was customary among the Greeks (Homer, ps.) and Romans:
--Sed cænam funeris hoeres Negliget iratus quod rem curtaveris; urnæ Ossa inodora dabit. (Persius. vi.) See Amos vi. 10. Jonathan insinuates, that they burnt over the bodies aromatic spices.
