1 Samuel 31:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They cut off his head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to carry the good news to the houses of their idols and to the people.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:20

Tell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice; the daughters of the uncircumcised will exult.

1 Samuel 17:51

Then David ran and stood over the Philistine; he grasped his sword, drew it out of its sheath, and killed him; then he cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

1 Samuel 17:54

David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.

1 Samuel 31:4

Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, so that these uncircumcised may not come and thrust me through and make sport of me.” But his armor-bearer was unwilling, for he was terrified. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

1 Samuel 31:8

The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.