¹⁶ The people of Joseph replied, “The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who live in the plain have chariots fitted with iron,^(A) both those in Beth Shan^(B) and its settlements and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”^(C)

¹⁰ They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths^(A) and fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.^(B)

¹² all their valiant men^(A) marched through the night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan and went to Jabesh, where they burned^(B) them.

¹² he went and took the bones of Saul^(A) and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead.^(B) (They had stolen their bodies from the public square at Beth Shan,^(C) where the Philistines had hung^(D) them after they struck Saul down on Gilboa.)^(E)