All the people in Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul.
The Philistines put Saul’s armor in the temple of their idols and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.
So the brave men of Jabesh went and got the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the large tree in Jabesh. Then the people of Jabesh fasted for seven days.
Then they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel did not come here to Mizpah?” They found that no one from the city of Jabesh Gilead had come.