8. And then the next day, the Philistines came to strip the dead and they found Saul and his three sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa.
9. So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor. Then they sent messengers around in the land of the Philistines to proclaim victory in the temples of their idols and to the people.
10. And they put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreth, and they fastened his corpse to the wall of Beth Shan.
11. When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard about it, what the Philistines had done to Saul,
12. all of the valiant men set out and went all night and took the corpse of Saul and the corpses of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there.
13. Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk in Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days.