David brought the bones of Saul and of Jonathan his son from there; they also gathered up the bones of those who had been executed.

You are my brothers – my very own flesh and blood! Why should you delay any further in bringing the king back?’

All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron saying, “Look, we are your very flesh and blood!

he went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan from the leaders of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines publicly exposed their corpses after they had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? God will punish me severely, if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin at Zela in the grave of his father Kish. After they had done everything that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers for the land.