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The next day when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
9
They stripped him and took his head and his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to carry the good news to their idols and to the people.
10
They put his armor in the temple of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
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But when all Jabesh-gilead heard everything that the Philistines had done to Saul,
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all the valiant warriors got up and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh. Then they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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