1 Samuel 31:6–13

⁶Thus Saul died with his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men on that day together.

⁷Then the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, with those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead. So they forsook the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.

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,

^12aso 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.