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On the following day the Philistines, in their search among the fallen, found and plundered the bodies of Saul and of his sons, and sent the head and the armour of Saul round about the land of the Philistines, to proclaim the news of their victory to their people and their gods. That for this purpose they cut off Saul's head from the trunk, is, as being a matter of course, not specially mentioned. In regard to the other discrepancies between the two texts, both in 1Ch 10:8-10 and in the account of the burial of Saul and of his sons by valiant men of Jabesh, 1Ch 10:11, 1Ch 10:12, cf. the commentary on 1Sa 31:8-13. In the reflection on Saul's death, 1Ch 10:13 and 1Ch 10:14, a double transgression against the Lord on Saul's part is mentioned: first, the מַעַל (on the meaning of this word, vide on Lev 5:15) of not observing the word of Jahve, which refers to the transgression of the divine command made known to him by the prophet Samuel, 1Sa 13:8. (cf. with 1Ch 10:8), and 1Sa 15:2-3, 1Sa 15:11, cf. 1Sa 28:18; and second, his inquiring of the אֹוב, the summoner of the dead (vide on Lev 19:31), לִדְרֹושׁ, i.e., to receive an oracle (cf. in reference to both word and thing, 1Sa 28:7).