The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
SA1 31:8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came
to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in
mount Gilboa.
SA1 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.
SA1 31:10 And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they
fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.
SA1 31:11 And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that which
the Philistines had done to Saul;
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