9
They stripped him and took his head and his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to carry the good news to their idols and to the people.
7
When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their towns and fled; and the Philistines came and occupied them.
8
The next day when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
9
They stripped him and took his head and his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to carry the good news to their idols and to the people.
10
They put his armor in the temple of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
11
But when all Jabesh-gilead heard everything that the Philistines had done to Saul,
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