BRAGADAYJAH 906
Saul’s ignominious Death and Burial
Seeing that Saul and all his sons and
those around him were all dead, the rest of Israel fled and deserted the
occupied cities, and the Philistines went and occupied them. And the following
day when the Philistines went to strip the slain Israelites, they discovered
that Saul and his three sons were among the dead. And they cut off Saul’s head,
and stripped his armor, and sent them into the land of the Philistines to
publicize Saul’s death in the house of their gods and among their people. And
they put his armor in the house of Ashtaroth one of their gods and fastened his
body to the wall at Bethshan. And when
the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
some valiant men went and journeyed all night to get to Bethshan and they
removed the bodies of Saul and his sons and took them to Jabesh and burnt them
there. And they took their bones and buried them under a tree at Jabesh and
fasted seven days.
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