Holy Scripture
1 Samuel 31:13
A church father on this verse
“And they fasted for seven days. Literally and rightly for the dead, so that they may reach rest, it is fasted for seven days, which after the six ages of this world, in which we labor in the flesh, the seventh is in that world the age of rest for the souls freed from the flesh, in which the blessed await that glorious…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
13And they take their bones, and bury them in the field that is in Jabesh, and fast seven days.
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In context
11And the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead hear what the Philistines did to Saul.
12And they rose up, even every man of might, and marched all night, and took the body of Saul and the body of Jonathan his son from the wall of Beth-shan; and they bring them to Jabesh, and burn them there.
— 1 Samuel 31:13 —