When the Philistines found the bodies of Saul and his sons, they cut off Saul's head, stripped his armor, sent messengers throughout Philistia to carry news to the house of their idols and the people, and put his armor in the temple of Ashtaroth and fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. The people of Jabesh-gilead heard this, went all night to take the body of Saul and his sons and came to Jabesh to burn them there. Their bones were buried under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted 7 days. (1 Samuel 31)