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1 Chronicles 10:9

1 Chronicles 10:9
And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people.

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Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

1 Chronicles 10:8-14

Here, I. From the triumph of the Philistines over the body of Saul we may learn, 1. That the greater dignity men are advanced to the greater disgrace they are in danger of falling into. Saul's dead…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

And when they had stripped him, they took R.V. And they stripped him, and took.

to carry tidings unto their idols In Samuel, "to publish it in thehouse(or houses) of their idols"; cp. 1Sa 31:10. The…