1 Samuel 31
31
Saul Takes His Own Life
1The Philistines fought against the Israelites. The Israelites ran away from them. But many Israelites were killed on Mount Gilboa. 2The Philistines kept chasing Saul and his sons. They killed his sons Jonathan, Abinadab and Malki-Shua. 3The fighting was heavy around Saul. Men who were armed with bows and arrows caught up with him. They shot their arrows at him and wounded him badly.
4Saul spoke to the man carrying his armor. He said, “Pull out your sword. Stick it through me. If you don’t, these fellows who aren’t circumcised will come. They’ll stick their swords through me and hurt me badly.”
But the man was terrified. He wouldn’t do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it. 5The man saw that Saul was dead. So he fell on his own sword and died with him. 6Saul and his three sons died together that same day. The man who carried his armor also died with them that day. So did all of Saul’s men.
7The Israelites who lived along the valley saw that their army had run away. So did those who lived across the Jordan River. They saw that Saul and his sons were dead. So they left their towns and ran away. Then the Philistines came and made their homes in them.
8The day after the Philistines had won the battle, they came to take what they wanted from the dead bodies. They found Saul and his three sons dead on Mount Gilboa. 9So they cut off Saul’s head. They took his armor from his body. Then they sent messengers through the whole land of the Philistines. They announced the news in the temple where they had set up statues of their gods. They also announced it among their people. 10They put Saul’s armor in the temple where they had set up statues of female gods that were named Ashtoreth. They hung his body up on the wall of Beth Shan.
11The people of Jabesh Gilead heard about what the Philistines had done to Saul. 12So all their brave men marched through the night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan. They brought them to Jabesh. There they burned them. 13Then they got the bones of Saul and his sons and buried them under a tamarisk tree at Jabesh. They didn’t eat anything for seven days.
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1 Samuel 31
31
Saul and Jonathan Die on Mount Gilboa
1Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and they fell slain on Mount Gilboa. 2And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malki-Shua, the sons of Saul. 3Saul was in the thick of the battle,#Literally “The battle weighed heavily on Saul” and the archers#Literally “the shooters, the men with the bow” spotted#Hebrew “found” him, and he was badly wounded by the archers. 4Then Saul said to his armor bearer,#Literally “the carrier of his weapons” “Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, so that these uncircumcised do not come and thrust me through and make a fool of me!” But his armor bearer#Literally “the carrier of his weapons” was not willing to do so because he was very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it. 5And when his armor bearer#Literally “the carrier of his weapons” saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died with him. 6So Saul died, and his three sons, his armor bearer,#Literally “the carrier of his weapons” and all his men together that same day.
7And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those who were beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the towns and fled. Thus the Philistines came and lived in them.
8And then#Literally, “And it happened” the next day, the Philistines came to strip the dead and they found Saul and his three sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa. 9So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor. Then they sent messengers around in the land of the Philistines to proclaim victory in the temples#Or “houses” of their idols and to the people. 10And they put his armor in the temple#Or “house” of the Ashtoreth,#Hebrew plural “Ashtaroth” (Ashtoreth was the female consort of Ba’al) and they fastened his corpse to the wall of Beth Shan. 11When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard about it, what the Philistines had done to Saul, 12all of the valiant men#Literally “the men of ability” set out and went all night and took the corpse of Saul and the corpses of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there. 13Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk in Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days.
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