World English Bible
"When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard concerning him that which the Philistines had done to Saul,"
— 1 Samuel 31:11, World English Bible
“And when the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;”
“And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard concerning him that which the Philistines had done to Saul, ”
“When the residents of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,”
“Now when the inhabitants of Jabes Galaad had heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,”
“And when the people of Jabesh-gilead had news of what the Philistines had done to Saul,”
“And when the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;”
It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
They cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to the house of their idols, and to the people.
They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.
When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard concerning him that which the Philistines had done to Saul,
all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
They took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.