1 Samuel 31:10-13 Devotionals, Articles & Bible Study

¹⁰They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.

¹¹When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

¹²all 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.

¹³Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

— 1 Samuel 31:10-13

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