1 Samuel 31:10

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8 So it happened the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

9 And they cut off his head and stripped off his armor, and sent word throughout the land of the Philistines, to ^aproclaim it in the temple of their idols and among the people.

10 ^aThen they put his armor in the temple of the ^bAshtoreths, and ^cthey fastened his body to the wall of ^dBeth Shan.

11 ^aNow when the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

12 ^aall the valiant men arose and traveled 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 ^bburned them there.

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1 Samuel 31:10

In the house of Ashtaroth - This was doubtless the famous temple of Venus in Askelon mentioned by Herodotus as the most ancient of all her temples. Hence, the special mention of Askelon II Samuel 1:20. The placing Saul' s armour as a trophy in the temple of Ashtaroth was a counterpart to the placing Goliath' s sword in the tabernacle I Samuel 21:9. In I Chronicles 10:10 it is added that they "fastened Saul' s head in the temple of Dagon," probably either in Gaza Judges 16:21, or in Ashdod I Samuel 5:1-3. This was, perhaps, in retaliation for the similar treatment of Goliath' s head I Samuel 17:54. The variations seem to imply that both this narrative and that in I Chronicles 10:1-14 are compiled from a common and a fuller document.

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