9. They cut off Saul's head, stripped off his armour, and sent messengers with them throughout Philistia to tell the good news to their idols and to their people.
10. They put his weapons in one of their temples and hung his head in the temple of their god Dagon.
11. When the people of Jabesh in Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
12. the bravest men went and fetched the bodies of Saul and his sons and took them to Jabesh. They buried them there under an oak and fasted for seven days.