1 Samuel 31:9-11

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹ And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to their idols^[a] and to the people. ¹⁰ They put his armor in the temple of Ash′taroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. ¹¹ But when the inhabitants of Ja′besh-gil′ead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,