◄ 1 Chronicles 10:9 ►
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Good News Translation
They cut off Saul's head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers with them throughout Philistia to tell the good news to their idols and to their people.

New Revised Standard Version
They stripped him and took his head and his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to carry the good news to their idols and to the people.

Contemporary English Version
they took Saul's weapons, pulled off his armor, and cut off his head. Then they sent messengers everywhere in Philistia to spread the news among their people and to thank the idols of their gods.

New American Bible
They stripped him, and took his head and his armor; these they sent throughout the land of the Philistines to bring the good news to their idols and to the people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they had stripped him, and out off his head, and taken away his armour, they sent it into their land, to be carried about, and shewn in the temples of the idols and to the people.

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And when they had stripped him, and out off his head, and taken away his armour, they sent it into their land, to be carried about, and shewn in the temples of the idols and to the people.

took

1 Chronicles 10:4 And Saul said to his armourbearer: Draw thy sword, and kill me: lest these uncircumcised come, and mock me. But his armourbearer would not, for he was struck with fear: so Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.

1 Samuel 31:9,10 And they cut off Saul's head, and stripped him of his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the temples of their idols and among their people. . . .

2 Samuel 1:20 Tell it not in Geth, publish it not in the streets of Ascalon: lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

Matthew 14:11 And his head was brought in a dish: and it was given to the damsel, and she brought it to her mother.

tidings

Judges 16:23,24 And the princes of the Philistines assembled together, to offer great sacrifices to Dagon their god, and to make merry, saying: Our god hath delivered our enemy Samson into our hands. . . .

Daniel 5:2-4,23 And being now drunk, he commanded that they should bring the vessels of gold and silver, which Nabuchodonosor, his father, had brought away out of the temple, that was in Jerusalem, that the king and his nobles, and his wives, and his concubines, might drink in them. . . .

Context
The Philistines Possess the Towns
…8And the next day the Philistines taking away the spoils of them that were slain, found Saul and his sons lying on mount Gelboe. 9And when they had stripped him, and out off his head, and taken away his armour, they sent it into their land, to be carried about, and shewn in the temples of the idols and to the people.10And his armour they dedicated in the temple of their god, and his head they fastened up in the temple of Dagon.…
Cross References
Judges 16:24
And the people also seeing this, praised their god, and said the same: Our god hath delivered our adversary into our hands, him that destroyed our country, and killed very many.

1 Samuel 31:9
And they cut off Saul's head, and stripped him of his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the temples of their idols and among their people.

1 Chronicles 10:8
And the next day the Philistines taking away the spoils of them that were slain, found Saul and his sons lying on mount Gelboe.

1 Chronicles 10:10
And his armour they dedicated in the temple of their god, and his head they fastened up in the temple of Dagon.

1 Chronicles 10:8
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