^4 (A)Then the men of Judah came, and there they ^(B)anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, ^(C)“The men of Jabesh Gilead were the ones who buried Saul.”

⁵ So David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, ^(A)“You are blessed of the Lord, for you have shown this kindness to your lord, to Saul, and have buried him.

¹² Then David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of ^(A)Jabesh Gilead who had stolen them from the street of ^[a]Beth Shan, where the ^(B)Philistines had hung them up, after the Philistines had struck down Saul in Gilboa. ¹³ So he brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there; and they gathered the bones of those who had been hanged. ¹⁴ They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in ^(C)Zelah, in the tomb of Kish his father. So they performed all that the king commanded. And after that ^(D)God heeded the prayer for the land.