1 Samuel 31:9-11

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⁹ They cut off his head and stripped off his armor, and they sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news^(A) in the temple of their idols and among their people.^{(B) 10} They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths^(C) and fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.^(D)

¹¹ When the people of Jabesh Gilead^(E) heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

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