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1 Samuel 31:11

“When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,”

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⁹They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among their people.

¹⁰They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.

¹¹When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

¹²All their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.

¹³Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

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