¹³ Then they took their bones^(A) and buried them under a tamarisk^(B) tree at Jabesh, and they fasted^(C) seven days.^(D)

¹³ Then they sat on the ground^(A) with him for seven days and seven nights.^(B) No one said a word to him,^(C) because they saw how great his suffering was.

¹⁵ I came to the exiles who lived at Tel Aviv near the Kebar River.^(A) And there, where they were living, I sat among them for seven days^(B)—deeply distressed.