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10 And they put his armor in the temple[a] of the Ashtoreth,[b] and they fastened his corpse to the wall of Beth Shan. 11 When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard about it, what the Philistines had done to Saul, 12 all of the valiant men[c] set out and went all night and took the corpse of Saul and the corpses of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 31:10 Or “house”
  2. 1 Samuel 31:10 Hebrew plural “Ashtaroth” (Ashtoreth was the female consort of Ba’al)
  3. 1 Samuel 31:12 Literally “the men of ability”