Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD God Everlasting.

When Saul heard that David and the men who were with him had been found, he was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree on the hill, with his spear in his hand. All his officials were standing around him.

They took their bones, buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted for seven days.

every valiant soldier got up, removed the bodies of Saul and his sons, took them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh. Then they fasted for seven days.