KJV 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.
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1 Samuel 31:8
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.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB 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.
WEB World English Bible
It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
ASV American Standard 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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass on the morrow, that the Philistines come to strip the wounded, and they find Saul and his three sons fallen on mount Gilboa,
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 31
5 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.
6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.
7 And when the men of Israel that [were] on the other side of the valley, and [they] that [were] on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
8 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.
9 And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish [it in] the house of their idols, and among the people.
10 And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.
11 And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;
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וַֽיְהִי֙H1961 · ha.yahto beמִֽמָּחֳרָ֔תH4283 · mo.cho.ratmorrowוַיָּבֹ֣אוּH935 · boto come (in): comeפְלִשְׁתִּ֔יםH6430 · pe.lish.tiPhilistineלְפַשֵּׁ֖טH6584 · pa.shatto stripאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַחֲלָלִ֑יםH2491 · cha.lalslain: killedוַֽיִּמְצְא֤וּH4672 · ma.tsato findאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]שָׁאוּל֙H7586 · sha.ulSaulוְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁתH7969 · sha.loshthreeבָּנָ֔יוH1121 · benson: childנֹפְלִ֖יםH5307 · na.phalto fall: fallבְּהַ֥רH2022 · harmountain: mountהַגִּלְבֹּֽעַ׃H1533 · gil.bo.aGilboa
Cross-references
1 Chronicles 10:8And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa.2 Chronicles 20:25And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.
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