They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk† tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Samuel 31:13 in context
1 Samuel 31:10–13
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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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