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.