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6 So Saul, his three sons, his armorbearer, and all his men died together that same day.
7 And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were on the other side of the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
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,  
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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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1 Samuel 31:8-9

THE PHILISTINES TRIUMPH OVER THEIR DEAD BODIES. (I Samuel 31:8-10)

on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen—On discovering the corpses of the slaughtered princes on the battlefield, the enemy reserved them for special indignities. They consecrated the armor of the king and his sons to the temple of Ashtaroth fastened their bodies on the temple of Shen, while they fixed the royal heads ignominiously in the temple of Dagon (I Chronicles 10:10); thus dividing the glory among their several deities.




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