1 Samuel 31:6-11
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Chapter 31
6Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together. 7And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. And the Philistines came and lived in them.
8The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
9So 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 the house of their idols and to the people.
10They put his armor in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
11But when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
