Who Exactly Were the Philistines?
Betty Dunn
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1 Chronicles 10:10
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They put his armor in the house of their gods and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.
1 Chronicles 10:10 Meaning and Commentary
1 Chronicles 31:10
(See Gill on 1 Samuel 31:10)
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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1 Chronicles 10:10 In-Context
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It came about the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
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So they stripped him and took his head and his armor and sent messengers around the land of the Philistines to carry the good news to their idols and to the people.
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They put his armor in the house of their gods and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.
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When all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
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all the valiant men arose and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh, and they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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