1 Samuel 31:9

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cut off: 1 Samuel 31:4, 1 Samuel 17:51, 1 Samuel 17:54, 1 Chronicles 10:9, 1 Chronicles 10:10

to publish: Judges 16:23, Judges 16:24, 2 Samuel 1:20

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 4:7 - took his head Daniel 1:2 - and he

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they cut off his head,.... And fastened it in the temple of Dagon, 1 Chronicles 10:10; perhaps that which was at Ashdod, one of the principalities of the Philistines, 1 Samuel 5:1;

and stripped off his armour; or vessels h, his clothes as well as his armour, and what he had about him; as for his crown on his head, and the bracelet on his arm, the Amalekite took them before the Philistines came, 2 Samuel 1:10;

and sent into the land of the Philistines round about: not his head and his armour, for they were placed in the temple of their idols; unless we can suppose these were first carried about for show, and as proofs of the victory: but rather messengers, who were sent express with the news,

to publish [it in] the house of their idols, and among the people; that so they might be glad and rejoice, and give praise to their idols, to whom they ascribed the success they had.

h את כליו "vasa ejus", Munster, Montanus.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 31:9. And they cut off his head — It is possible that they cut off the heads of his three sons likewise; for although only his head is said to be cut off, and his body only to be fastened to the walls of Beth-shan, yet we find that the men of Jabesh-gilead found both his body and the bodies of his three sons, fastened to the walls, 1 Samuel 31:12.

Perhaps they only took off Saul's head, which they sent about to their temples as a trophy of their victory, when they sent the news of the defeat of the Israelites through all their coasts, and at last placed it in the temple of Dagon, 1 Chronicles 10:10.