1 Samuel 31:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁹ They cut off his head, stripped off his armour, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to carry the good news to the houses of their idols and to the people. ¹⁰ They put his armour in the temple of Astarte;^[a] and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. ¹¹ But when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,