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1Sa_31:9 And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish [it in] the house of their idols, and among the people.
Ver. 9. And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour.] They served him in like sort as their champion Goliath had been served: that they might cry quittance with him. Men love to retaliate.
To publish it in the house of their idols.] Heb., Their fray-bugs {object of fear}. So called, because they fright their superstitious followers, instead of instructing and comforting them. See Psa_16:4. {See Trapp on "Psa_16:4"}
And among the people.] This David would not have had done, {2Sa_1:20} but God suffered it, though he some way suffered in it, to show his singular hatred of sin, and show he is set upon the punishment of it.