6 So Saul and three of his sons died; all his family died together.
7 When the Israelites living in the valley saw that their army had run away and that Saul and his sons were dead, they left their towns and ran away. Then the Philistines came and settled in them.
8 The next day when the Philistines came to strip the dead soldiers, they found Saul and his sons dead on Mount Gilboa.
9 The Philistines stripped Saul’s body and took his head and his armor. Then they sent messengers through all their country to tell the news to their idols and to their people.
10 The Philistines put Saul’s armor in the temple of their idols and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.
11 All the people in Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul.
12 So the brave men of Jabesh went and got the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the large tree in Jabesh. Then the people of Jabesh fasted for seven days.