1 Samuel 31:9-11

Good News Translation

⁹ 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. ¹⁰ Then they put his weapons in the temple of the goddess Astarte, and they nailed his body to the wall of the city of Beth Shan.

¹¹ When the people of Jabesh in Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,