They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 10. Astaroth. The like custom was observed by the Hebrew, (Calmet. 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, verse 12. Bible.—Saul’s head was hung up in the temple of Dagon, at Azotus; (1 Chronicles 10:10,) his body was suspended on the wall or street of Bethsan; (2 Kennicott. 21:12,) or in the most public place, near the gate of the city.