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The Triumph of the Philistines
v. 8. And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, to make the customary plunder of personal belongings, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in Mount Gilboa.
v. 9. And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, to whom they attributed this victory, and to the people.
v. 10. And they put his armor in the house of their gods, in the temple of Astarte, as trophies of the great victory, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon, their chief god, while the trunk was affixed to the wall of Beth-shan, 1Sa_31:10.
v. 11. And when all Jabesh-gilead, the inhabitants of the city east of Jordan, which owed so much to Saul, heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
v. 12. they arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, from the wall of Beth-shan, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days, in token of mourning. Cf 1Sa_31:11-13.
v. 13. So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the Lord, even against the word of the Lord, which he kept not, 1Sa_13:13, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it, 1Sa_28:1;
v. 14. and enquired not of the Lord, namely, after sound repentance; therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David, the son of Jesse. Rejecting the Word of God is equivalent to rejecting the Lord Himself and is followed by the same punishment. A professed Christian who seeks the advice of the modern necromancers and fortune-tellers by that fact sets aside his Christian faith, sinning against the Second Commandment.