Bible Compass
Log inGet started
Back to the chapter

1 Samuel 31:10

Beth-shan
Praise and worship

8 The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

9 They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among their people.

They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.

11 When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

12 all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.

Read the whole chapter

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.
KJV
And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
WEB
They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.
ASV
And they put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
DARBY
And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
BLB
And they put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths, and his body they fastened to the wall of Beth-shan.
ÅB
Og hans våpen la de i Astartetemplet, og hans kropp hengte de opp på muren i Betsan.
OTB
Så la de våpnene hans i tempelet til Astarte, og de festet kroppen hans til muren i Bet-Sjan.
B1930
Og hans våben la de i Astartetemplet, og hans kropp hengte de op på muren i Betsan.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Judges 2:13

    for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

    Read in context

  • Joshua 17:11

    Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh was assigned Beth-shean, Ibleam, Dor (that is, Naphath), Endor, Taanach, and Megiddo, each with their surrounding settlements.

    Read in context

  • 1 Samuel 21:9

    The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want, you may take it. For there is no other but this one.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”

    Read in context

  • 1 Samuel 7:3

    Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”

    Read in context

  • 2 Samuel 21:12–14

    he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.

    Read in context

  • Judges 1:27

    At that time Manasseh failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, and their villages; for the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land.

    Read in context