Daily Chizuk #1061

The pasuk at the end of Sefer Shemuel א, describes how the people of Yavesh Gilad went and saved the remains of Shaul and his sons from the hands of The Plishtim. It says there in the Radak, because Shaul did a chesed for them years before, they came and did a chesed for him now. And the Midrash says in the Yalkut Shimoni, because they had hakarat hatov and did a chesed for Shaul and his children, Hashem is going to do a chesed for their children. In the future, when Hashem gathers all the Jewish People to come back to live in Eretz Yisrael with the Mashiach, He is first going to bring back their children, chatzi Shevet Menashe, as it says לי גלעד ולי מנשה. To teach us the power of even one chesed, how it leads to many more chasadim and rewards from Hashem.