1 Chronicles 10
1 The Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from the Philistines and fell dead on Mount Gilboa.
2 The Philistines pressed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul’s sons.
3 The battle grew fierce against Saul. The archers found him, and he trembled because of them.
4 Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, so these uncircumcised men won’t come and mock me.” But his armor-bearer refused, because he was terrified. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.
5 When the armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his sword and died.
6 So Saul and his three sons died, and his whole household died along with him.
7 All the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead. So they abandoned their towns and fled, and the Philistines came and settled in them.
8 The next day, the Philistines came to strip the dead, and they found Saul and his sons lying on Mount Gilboa.
9 They stripped him, took his head and his weapons, and sent word throughout the land of the Philistines to announce the news to their idols and to the people.
10 They placed his weapons in the house of their gods and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.
11 Everyone in Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul.
12 Then all the brave men rose up, took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the terebinth at Jabesh and fasted for seven days.
13 So Saul died because of his unfaithfulness to the LORD: he had not kept the word of the LORD, and he had also consulted a medium to seek guidance from the dead.
14 He had not consulted the LORD; therefore the LORD put him to death and transferred the kingdom to David son of Jesse.
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