1 Samuel 31:8-13 — Legacy Standard Bible

⁸Now it happened on the ¹next day, that the Philistines came to strip the slain, and they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. ⁹Then they cut off his head and stripped off his weapons and sent them all around the land of the Philistines, ^ato proclaim the good news ^bto the house of their idols and to the people. ¹⁰And they placed his weapons in the ¹house of ^aAshtaroth and ^bfastened his body to the wall of ^cBeth-shan. ¹¹Then ^athe inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard ¹what the Philistines had done to Saul, ¹²^aso all the valiant men arose and walked all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and ^bburned them there. ¹³And they took their bones and ^aburied them under ^bthe tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and ^cfasted seven days.