And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and
And buried them under a tree at Jabesh. х tachat (H8478) haa'eshel (H815), under the tamarisk: cf. 1 Chronicles 10:12, where the word used is haa'eelaah (H424), a terebinth; any strong tree. The Septuagint has: hupo teen harouran en Iabis, under the soil, ground, at Jabesh.] 'Thus do the circumstances of the Biblical narrative consist, not merely with the relative position of the places, but with the natural peculiarities of the spot' (Trail's Josephus').