1 Chronicles 10
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- 1The Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from them and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.
- 2The Philistines pursued Saul and his sons closely, and they killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
- 3The battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was badly wounded by them.
- 4Saul told his armor bearer, 'Draw your sword and run me through with it, so these uncircumcised don't come and abuse me.' But his armor bearer was too afraid to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.
- 5When the armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died.
- 6So Saul, his three sons, and all his household died together.
- 7When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities and fled. The Philistines came and lived in them.
- 8The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons lying on Mount Gilboa.
- 9They stripped Saul's body, cut off his head, and took his armor. Then they sent messengers throughout Philistine territory to spread the news among their idols and their people.
- 10They placed his armor in the temple of their gods and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
- 11When the people of Jabesh Gilead heard everything the Philistines had done to Saul,
- 12every brave man among them set out and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons. They brought them back to Jabesh, buried their bones under the oak tree there, and fasted for 7 days.
- 13Saul died because of his sin against the LORD. He disobeyed the LORD's direct command, and on top of that, he consulted a medium for guidance
- 14instead of seeking the LORD. Because of this, the LORD put him to death and handed the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.