⁹ They cut off his head and stripped off his weapons, and sent them ^[a]throughout the land of the Philistines, ^(A)to bring the good news ^(B)to the house of their idols and to the people.

^9 (A)So they stripped him and took his head and his armor and sent messengers around the land of the Philistines to carry the good news to their idols and to the people.