| I Samuel 31:10
| And they put his armour in the temple of Astaroth, but his body they hung on the wall of Bethsan.
| Astaroth. The like custom was observed by the Hebrew, (chap. 21:9,) and by the Greeks and Romans, (Calmet) to acknowledge that victory was granted by God. The Philistines insulted Saul's body, and blasphemed the true God, as much as if they had taken the king alive. He only avoided the mortification of hearing them while he was forced to attend to the furies below. --- Body, with those of his three sons, ver. 12. (Haydock) --- Saul's head was hung up in the temple of Dagon, at Azotus; (1 Paralipomenon 10:10,) his body was suspended on the wall or street of Bethsan; (2 Kings 21:12,) or in the most public place, near the gate of the city.
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