9. They stripped Saul, cut off his head, took his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to spread the good news to their idols and their people.
10. Then they put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his skull in the temple of Dagon.
11. When all Jabesh-gilead heard of everything the Philistines had done to Saul,
12. all their brave men set out and retrieved the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.