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1 Samuel 31
⁸ It came about on the next day when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
⁹ They cut off his head and stripped off his weapons, and sent them throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to the house of their idols and to the people.
¹⁰ They put his weapons in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
¹¹ Now when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
¹² all the valiant men rose and walked 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 They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
2 Samuel 1
¹ Now it came about after the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, that David remained two days in Ziklag.
² On the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn and dust on his head. And it came about when he came to David that he fell to the ground and prostrated himself.
³ Then David said to him, "From where do you come?" And he said to him, "I have escaped from the camp of Israel."
⁴ David said to him, "How did things go? Please tell me." And he said, "The people have fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also."
⁵ So David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"