11. Now when the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
12. all the valiant men arose and traveled all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh and burned them there.
13. Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.