9 They cut off Saul’s head and stripped him of his armor; these they sent throughout the land of the Philistines to bring the good news to the temple of their idols and to the people.
10 They put his armor in the temple of Astarte but impaled his body on the wall of Beth-shan.
11 When the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
12 all their warriors set out and traveled through the night; they removed the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and, returning to Jabesh, burned them.
13 Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted for seven days.