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 Psalms 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.

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