¹⁰ They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths^(A) and fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.^(B)

¹¹ When the people of Jabesh Gilead^(C) heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, ¹² all their valiant men^(D) marched through the night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan and went to Jabesh, where they burned^(E) them. ¹³ Then they took their bones^(F) and buried them under a tamarisk^(G) tree at Jabesh, and they fasted^(H) seven days.^(I)

⁴ Then the men of Judah came to Hebron,^(A) and there they anointed^(B) David king over the tribe of Judah.

When David was told that it was the men from Jabesh Gilead^(C) who had buried Saul,