1 Samuel 31:9-11
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
9 They cut off Saul’s head and stripped him of his armor; these they sent throughout the land of the Philistines to bring the good news to the temple of their idols and to the people.(A) 10 They put his armor in the temple of Astarte but impaled his body on the wall of Beth-shan.
Burial of Saul. 11 (B)When the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
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