1 Samuel 31

¹And the Philistines are fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel flee from the face of the Philistines, and fall wounded in mount Gilboa,

²and the Philistines follow Saul and his sons, and the Philistines smite Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, sons of Saul.

³And the battle is hard against Saul, and the archers find him — men with bow — and he is pained greatly by the archers;

⁴and Saul saith to the bearer of his weapons, 'Draw thy sword, and pierce me with it, lest they come — these uncircumcised — and have pierced me, and rolled themselves on me;' and the bearer of his weapons hath not been willing, for he is greatly afraid, and Saul taketh the sword, and falleth upon it.

⁵And the bearer of his weapons seeth that Saul [is] dead, and he falleth — he also — on his sword, and dieth with him;

⁶and Saul dieth, and three of his sons, and the bearer of his weapons, also all his men, on that day together.

⁷And they see — the men of Israel, who [are] beyond the valley, and who [are] beyond the Jordan — that the men of Israel have fled, and that Saul and his sons have died, and they forsake the cities and flee, and Philistines come in, and dwell in them.

⁸And it cometh to pass on the morrow, that the Philistines come to strip the wounded, and they find Saul and his three sons fallen on mount Gilboa,

⁹and they cut off his head, and strip off his weapons, and send into the land of the Philistines round about, to proclaim tidings [in] the house of their idols, and [among] the people;

¹⁰and they place his weapons [in] the house of Ashtaroth, and his body they have fixed on the wall of Beth-Shan.

¹¹And they hear regarding it — the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead — that which the Philistines have done to Saul,