10 They put his armor in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. 11 But ^awhen the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, 12 all the valiant men arose and went 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 And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and ^bfasted seven days.

4 And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah.

When they told David, ⁿ“It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,”