19 In the course of time, at the end of the second year, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great pain. His people made no funeral fire in his honor,(A) as they had for his predecessors.

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12 all their valiant men(A) marched through the night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan and went to Jabesh, where they burned(B) them.

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you will die peacefully. As people made a funeral fire(A) in honor of your predecessors, the kings who ruled before you, so they will make a fire in your honor and lament, “Alas,(B) master!” I myself make this promise, declares the Lord.’”

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10 And if the relative who comes to carry the bodies out of the house to burn them[a](A) asks anyone who might be hiding there, “Is anyone else with you?” and he says, “No,” then he will go on to say, “Hush!(B) We must not mention the name of the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:10 Or to make a funeral fire in honor of the dead

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