1 Samuel 31:6-13 ▼

6 and Saul dies, and three of his sons, and the bearer of his weapons, also all his men, together on that day.

7 And they see—the men of Israel, who [are] beyond the valley, and who [are] beyond the Jordan—that the men of Israel have fled, and that Saul and his sons have died, and they forsake the cities and flee, and Philistines come in, and dwell in them.

8 And it comes to pass on the next day, that the Philistines come to strip the wounded, and they find Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa,

9 and they cut off his head, and strip off his weapons, and send [them] into the land of the surrounding Philistines, to proclaim tidings [in] the house of their idols, and [among] the people;

10 and they place his weapons [in] the house of Ashtaroth, and they have fixed his body on the wall of Beth-Shan.

11 And they hear regarding it—the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead—that which the Philistines have done to Saul,

12 and all the men of valor arise, and go all the night, and take the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, from the wall of Beth-Shan, and come to Jabesh, and burn them there,

13 and they take their bones, and bury [them] under the tamarisk in Jabesh, and fast seven days.