The men of Jabesh
Saul's body hangs on the wall of this city. The men he once saved walk all night to take it down. Kindness remembered is the last word on a bad king.
Stop 30 of 84. 84 km from Jerusalem. Next stop, Jerusalem, the City of David, is 84 km away.
8On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. 9They cut off his head, 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. 10They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan. 11When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, 12all the valiant men arose, 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 burned them there. 13They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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