So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to the house of their idols and to the people.
The scripture makes no mention of the souls of Saul and his sons, what became of them after they were dead (secret things belong not to us), but of their bodies only. I. How they were basely abused by the Philistines.
Commenting on 1 Samuel 31:8-13
And they cut off his head,.... And fastened it in the temple of Dagon, Ch1 10:10; perhaps that which was at Ashdod, one of the principalities of the Philistines, Sa1 5:1, and stripped off his armour; or vessels (h), his clothes as well as his armour, and what he had about him; as for his crown on his head, and the bracelet on his arm...
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. (d) In token of victory and triumph.