1 Paralipomenon 10

¹And the Philisthiims fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from the Palesthines, and they fell wounded in mount Gelboe.

²And when the Philisthians were come near pursuing Saul and his sons, they struck Jonathas, and Abinadab, and Melchisua the sons of Saul.

³And the battle grew sore against Saul, and the archers found him, and wounded him with arrows.

⁴And Saul said to his esquire: Draw thy sword, and kill me: lest perhaps these uncircumcised come, and deride me. But his harness-bearer would not, being frighted with fear: Saul therefore caught his sword, and fell upon it.

⁵Which when his harness-bearer had seen, to wit, that Saul was dead, himself also fell upon his sword, and died.

⁶Saul therefore died, and his three sons, and all his house fell together.

⁷Which when the men of Israel had seen that dwelt in the champion, they fled: and Saul and his sons being dead, they forsook their cities, and were dispersed hither and thither: and the Philisthiims came, and dwelt in them.

⁸The next day therefore the Philisthiims taking away the spoils of them that were slain, found Saul and his sons lying on mount Gelboe.

⁹And when they had spoiled him, and cut off his head, and stripped him of his armour, they sent into their land, that it should be carried about, & should be shewed in the temples of the idols, and to the people:

¹⁰& his armour they dedicated in the temple of their god, and the head they nailed up in the temple of Dagon.

¹¹When the men of Jabes Galaad had heard this, to wit, all things that the Philisthiims had done upon Saul,

¹²every one of the valiant men arose, and took the bodies of Saul and of his sons, and brought them into Jabes, & buried their bones under an oak, that was in Jabes, and they fasted seven days.

¹³Saul therefore died for his iniquities, for that he transgressed the commandment of our Lord which he had commanded, and kept it not: yea and besides also consulted the Pythoness,

¹⁴and trusted not in our Lord: for the which he slew him, and transferred his Kingdom to David the son of Isai.