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1 Samuel 31:9

Shame

7 When the Israelites along the valley and those on the other side of the Jordan saw that the army of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their cities and ran away. So the Philistines came and occupied their cities.

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

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.

10 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,

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BSB
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.
KJV
And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.
WEB
They cut off his head, stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to the house of their idols and to the people.
ASV
And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry the tidings unto the house of their idols, and to the people.
DARBY
And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent [them] into the land of the Philistines round about, to announce the glad tidings in the houses of their idols, and to the people.
BLB
And they cut off his head and stripped off his armor, and they sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to proclaim [it] [in] the temple of their idols and among the people.
ÅB
De hugg hodet av ham og røvet hans våpen og sendte dem rundt omkring i filistrenes land for å forkynne det glade budskap i deres avguders templer og for folket.
OTB
De fjernet hodet hans og tok av våpnene hans, og sendte dem gjennom landet til filisterne, for å kunngjøre nyheten til huset til deres avguder og til folket.
B1930
De hugg hodet av ham og røvet hans våben og sendte dem rundt omkring i filistrenes land for å forkynne det glade budskap i deres avguders templer og for folket.

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Cross references

  • 2 Samuel 1:20

    Tell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.

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  • Judges 16:23–24

    Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”

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  • 1 Chronicles 10:9–10

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

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  • 1 Samuel 31:4

    Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run it through me, or these uncircumcised men will come and run me through and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

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  • 1 Samuel 17:51

    David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine’s sword and pulled it from its sheath and killed him; and he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.

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  • 1 Samuel 17:54

    David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, and he put Goliath’s weapons in his own tent.

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