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1 Samuel 31
¹⁰ They placed his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths, and they fastened his body to the wall of the city of Beth-shan.
¹¹ But when the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
¹² all their mighty warriors traveled through the night to Beth-shan and took the bodies of Saul and his sons down from the wall. They brought them to Jabesh, where they burned the bodies.
¹³ Then they took their bones and buried them beneath the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days.
2 Samuel 1
¹ After the death of Saul, David returned from his victory over the Amalekites and spent two days in Ziklag.
² On the third day a man arrived from Saul’s army camp. He had torn his clothes and put dirt on his head to show that he was in mourning. He fell to the ground before David in deep respect.
³ “Where have you come from?” David asked. “I escaped from the Israelite camp,” the man replied.
⁴ “What happened?” David demanded. “Tell me how the battle went.” The man replied, “Our entire army fled from the battle. Many of the men are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.”
⁵ “How do you know Saul and Jonathan are dead?” David demanded of the young man.
⁶ The man answered, “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and there was Saul leaning on his spear with the enemy chariots and charioteers closing in on him.
⁷ When he turned and saw me, he cried out for me to come to him. ‘How can I help?’ I asked him.