Saul and His Sons Killed in Battle

31 (A)Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from the Philistines but fell fatally wounded (B)on Mount Gilboa. And the Philistines also overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines [a]killed (C)Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul. (D)The battle went heavily against Saul, and the archers found him; and he was gravely wounded by the archers. (E)Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and pierce me through with it, otherwise (F)these uncircumcised Philistines will come and pierce me through, and abuse me.” But his armor bearer was unwilling, because he was very fearful. (G)So Saul took [b]his sword and fell on it. When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died with him.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 31:2 Lit struck
  2. 1 Samuel 31:4 Lit the sword

Certainly now they will say, “We have (A)no king,
For we do not revere the Lord.
As for the king, what can he do for us?”

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