¹² all the ^(A)valiant men arose and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons; and they brought them to ^(B)Jabesh, and buried their bones under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

¹² Then David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of ^(A)Jabesh Gilead who had stolen them from the street of ^[a]Beth Shan, where the ^(B)Philistines had hung them up, after the Philistines had struck down Saul in Gilboa. ¹³ So he brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there; and they gathered the bones of those who had been hanged. ¹⁴ They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in ^(C)Zelah, in the tomb of Kish his father. So they performed all that the king commanded. And after that ^(D)God heeded the prayer for the land.

³⁵ And when all the people came ^(A)to persuade David to eat food while it was still day, David took an oath, saying, ^(B)“God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread or anything else ^(C)till the sun goes down!”

¹⁰ Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they ^(A)mourned there with a great and very solemn lamentation. ^(B)He observed seven days of mourning for his father.

⁸ Now ^(A)Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the terebinth tree. So the name of it was called ^[a]Allon Bachuth.