| I Samuel 31:12
| All the most valiant men arose, and walked all the night, and took the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, from the wall of Bethsan: and they came to Jabes Galaad, and burnt them there:
| Burnt them, or the flesh, reserving the ashes and bones to be buried, as was customary among the Greeks (Homer, ps.) and Romans: -----Sed caenam funeris hoeres Negliget iratus quod rem curtaveris; urnae Ossa inodora dabit. (Persius. vi.) See Amos 6:10. Jonathan insinuates, that they burnt over the bodies aromatic spices.
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