⁹ So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, ^(A)to carry the good news ^(B)to the house of their idols and to the people.

The Death of Samson

²³ Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to ^(A)Dagon their god and to rejoice, and they said, “Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand.” ²⁴ And when the people saw him, ^(B)they praised their god. For they said, “Our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country, who has killed many of us.”^[a]

⁹ And they stripped him and took his head and his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to carry the good news to their idols and to the people. ¹⁰ And they put his armor in the temple of their gods and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.

^4 (A)Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these ^(B)uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, ^(C)for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword ^(D)and fell upon it.

⁵⁴ And David took ^(A)the head of the Philistine ^(B)and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.

⁵¹ Then David ran and stood over the Philistine ^(A)and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, ^(B)they fled.