Do not tell it in Gath, don’t announce it in the marketplaces of Ashkelon, or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised will celebrate.
1 Samuel 31:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The next day when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons dead on Mount Gilboa. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. American Standard Version (1901) And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa. Common English Bible The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa. Catholic Public Domain Version Then, when the next day arrived, the Philistines came, so that they might despoil the slain. And they found Saul and his three sons lying on mount Gilboa. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And on the morrow the Philistines came to strip the slain: and they found Saul and his three sons lying in mount Gelboe. |
Do not tell it in Gath, don’t announce it in the marketplaces of Ashkelon, or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised will celebrate.
Mountains of Gilboa, let no dew or rain be on you, or fields of offerings, for there the shield of the mighty was defiled – the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
The next day when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons dead on Mount Gilboa.
Then Jehoshaphat and his people went to gather the plunder. They found among them an abundance of goods on the bodies and valuable items. So they stripped them until nobody could carry any more. They were gathering the plunder for three days because there was so much.
The Philistines gathered and camped at Shunem. So Saul gathered all Israel, and they camped at Gilboa.
When the men of Israel on the other side of the valley and on the other side of the Jordan saw that Israel’s men had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled. So the Philistines came and settled in them.
They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armour, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to spread the good news in the temples of their idols and among the people.