Don’t tell the news in Gath, [3] Don’t announce it in the streets of Ashkelon. [4] Those Philistine cities would be happy! Those foreigners [5] would be glad.
1 Samuel 31:8 - Easy To Read Version The next day, the Philistines went back to take things from the dead bodies. 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. |
Don’t tell the news in Gath, [3] Don’t announce it in the streets of Ashkelon. [4] Those Philistine cities would be happy! Those foreigners [5] would be glad.
I hope no rain or dew falls on the mountains of Gilboa. I hope there will be no offerings coming from those fields. The shields of the heroes rusted there. Saul’s shield was not rubbed with oil.
The next day, the Philistine people came to take valuable things from the dead bodies. They found Saul’s body and the bodies of his sons on Mount Gilboa.
Jehoshaphat and his army came to take valuable things from the bodies. They found many animals, riches, clothes, and valuable things. Jehoshaphat and his army took those things for themselves. The things were more than Jehoshaphat and his people could carry away. They spent three days taking away the valuable things from the dead bodies, because there was so much.
The Philistines prepared for war. They came to Shunem and made their camp at that place. Saul gathered all the Israelites and made his camp at Gilboa.
The Israelites {that lived} on the other side of the valley saw the Israelite army running away. They saw that Saul and his sons were dead. So those Israelites left their cities and ran away. Then the Philistines came and lived in those cities.
The Philistines cut off Saul’s head and took all his armor. They carried the news to the Philistine people and to all the temples of their idols. [218]