1 Samuel 31:10
Context
10They put his weapons in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. 11Now when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, 12all the valiant men rose and walked all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there. 13They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.



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Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
And they put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they put his armour in the temple of Astaroth, but his body they hung on the wall of Bethsan.

Darby Bible Translation
And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

English Revised Version
And they put his armour in the house of the Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they put his armor in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

World English Bible
They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.

Young's Literal Translation
and they place his weapons in the house of Ashtaroth, and his body they have fixed on the wall of Beth-Shan.
Library
Scythopolis. Beth-Shean, the Beginning of Galilee.
The bonds of Galilee were, "on the south, Samaris and Scythopolis, unto the flood of Jordan." Scythopolis is the same with Beth-shean, of which is no seldom mention in the Holy Scriptures, Joshua 17:11; Judges 1:27; 1 Samuel 31:10. "Bethsaine (saith Josephus), called by the Greeks Scythopolis." It was distant but a little way from Jordan, seated in the entrance to a great valley: for so the same author writes, "Having passed Jordan, they came to a great plain, where lies before you the city Bethsane,"
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica

Jews and Gentiles in "The Land"
Coming down from Syria, it would have been difficult to fix the exact spot where, in the view of the Rabbis, "the land" itself began. The boundary lines, though mentioned in four different documents, are not marked in anything like geographical order, but as ritual questions connected with them came up for theological discussion. For, to the Rabbis the precise limits of Palestine were chiefly interesting so far as they affected the religious obligations or privileges of a district. And in this respect
Alfred Edersheim—Sketches of Jewish Social Life

Samuel
Alike from the literary and the historical point of view, the book[1] of Samuel stands midway between the book of Judges and the book of Kings. As we have already seen, the Deuteronomic book of Judges in all probability ran into Samuel and ended in ch. xii.; while the story of David, begun in Samuel, embraces the first two chapters of the first book of Kings. The book of Samuel is not very happily named, as much of it is devoted to Saul and the greater part to David; yet it is not altogether inappropriate,
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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