⁸ The next day, when the Philistines^(A) came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. ⁹ They cut off his head and stripped off his armor, and they sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news^(B) in the temple of their idols and among their people.^{(C) 10} They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths^(D) and fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.^(E)