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1 Samuel 31:8
1 Samuel 31:8 is verse 8 of 1 Samuel chapter 31, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
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1 Samuel 31:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 So Saul, his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men died together that same day.
7 When the Israelites along the valley and those on the other side of the Jordan saw that the army of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their cities and ran away. So the Philistines came and occupied their cities.
8 The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
9 They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among their people.
10 They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Chronicles 10:8The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
2 Chronicles 20:25Then Jehoshaphat and his people went to carry off the plunder, and they found on the bodies an abundance of goods and valuables —more than they could carry away. They were gathering the plunder for three days because there was so much.