⁸ The next day, when the Philistines^(A) came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. ⁹ They cut off his head and stripped off his armor, and they sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news^(B) in the temple of their idols and among their people.^{(C) 10} They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths^(D) and fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.^(E)

¹¹ When the people of Jabesh Gilead^(F) heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, ¹² all their valiant men^(G) 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^(H) them. ¹³ Then they took their bones^(I) and buried them under a tamarisk^(J) tree at Jabesh, and they fasted^(K) seven days.^(L)

¹² all their valiant men went and took the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. Then they buried their bones under the great tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.