Bible Verses About Jabesh-Gilead: Saul and his sons buried at

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

all 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.

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

When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard about everything the Philistines had done to Saul,

all their men of valor set out and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.