11. When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
12. all the valiant men arose, went 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 burnt them there.
13. They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.