When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Samuel 31:11 in context
1 Samuel 31:8–13
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On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
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They cut off his head, stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to the house of their idols and to the people.
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They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.
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When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
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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 burned them there.
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They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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