Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And they hanged up his harness in the house of Ashtaroth, but they hanged up his carcass on the walls of Bet-Shean.
New American Standard Bible
They put his weapons in the
King James Version
And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.
Holman Bible
Then they put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths
International Standard Version
They put Saul's weapons in the temple of Asherah and fastened his corpse to the wall of Beth-shan.
A Conservative Version
And they put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
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.
Amplified
And they put Saul’s weapons and armor in the temple of the Ashtaroth (female goddesses), and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
Bible in Basic English
His war-dress they put in the house of Astarte; and his body was fixed on the wall of Beth-shan.
Darby Translation
And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
Julia Smith Translation
And they will put up his arms in the house of Ashtaroth: and his body they will hang up upon the wall of the House of Quiet
King James 2000
And they put his armor in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And they put his armor [in] the temple of the Ashtoreth, and they fastened his corpse to the wall of Beth Shan.
Modern King James verseion
And they put his armor in the house of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
NET Bible
They placed Saul's armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his corpse on the city wall of Beth Shan.
New Heart English Bible
They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.
The Emphasized Bible
And they put his armour in a house of Ashtoreths, - and, his dead body, fastened they on the wall of Beth-shan.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
and they place his weapons in the house of Ashtaroth, and his body they have fixed on the wall of Beth-Shan.
Themes
Ashtaroth » Ashtoreth or ashtoreth, a Goddess of the phoenicians
Beth-shean » Bodies of saul and his sons exposed in
Kings » Who reigned over all israel » saul
Philistines » Israel defeated by, and saul slain
Temple » Idolatrous » Trophies stored in
Walls » Of cities » The bodies of enemies sometimes fastened on, as a disgrace
Interlinear
Suwm
K@liy
Taqa`
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Samuel 31:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Saul And Jonathan Die On Mount Gilboa
9 And they cut off his head and stripped him out of his harness, and sent unto the land of the Philistines everywhere, to publish in the houses of their gods and to the people. 10 And they hanged up his harness in the house of Ashtaroth, but they hanged up his carcass on the walls of Bet-Shean. 11 When the inhabiters of Jabesh in Gilead heard thereof what the Philistines had done to Saul,
Cross References
Joshua 17:11
And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher, Bethshean, and her towns: and the inhabiters of Dor, with the towns pertaining to the same: and the inhabiters of Endor with the towns of the same: and the inhabiters of Taanach with her towns and the inhabiters of Megiddo with the towns of the same, even three countries:
Judges 2:13
And so they forsook the LORD and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
1 Samuel 21:9
Then the priest answered, "The sword of Goliath, the Philistine whom thou slewest in Oakdale; that is here, wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here." And David said, "There is none to that, give it me."
Judges 1:27
Neither did Manasseh expel Bethshean with her towns, neither Taanach with her towns, neither the inhabiters of Dor with her towns, neither the inhabiters of Ibleam with her towns, neither the inhabiters of Megiddo with her towns, and so the Cananites went to and dwelt in the said land.
1 Samuel 7:3
And Samuel spake unto all Israel, saying, "If ye be come again unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods from among you, and Ashtaroth, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD and serve him alone; and so shall he rid you out of the hands of the Philistines."
2 Samuel 21:12-14
he went and took the bones of Saul, and of Jonathan his son, and of the men of Jabesh in Gilead, which they had stolen from the street of Bet-Shean, where the Philistines had hanged them in the days when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa.