Cross references
1 Samuel 31:9
They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among their people.
1 Samuel 31:9 has 6 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 2 Samuel 1:20 (5 votes) and Judges 16:23–24 (4 votes). 7 other verses point back to it. It links with 4 other books, from Judges 16 to Daniel 1.
Which verses does 1 Samuel 31:9 point to?
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- 2 Samuel 1:205 votes
Tell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.
- Judges 16:23–244 votes
Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.” And when the people saw him, they praised their god, saying: “Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy who destroyed our land and multiplied our dead.”
- 1 Samuel 17:512 votes
David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine’s sword and pulled it from its sheath and killed him, and he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.
- 1 Samuel 17:542 votes
David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, and he put Goliath’s weapons in his own tent.
- 1 Samuel 31:42 votes
Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, or these uncircumcised men will come and run me through and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.
- 1 Chronicles 10:9–102 votes
They stripped Saul, cut off his head, took his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temple of their idols and among their people. They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.
Which verses point to 1 Samuel 31:9?
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