1 Samuel 31

1 Samuel Chapter 31 KJV

1The battle at Gilboa; wherein Saul's army being defeated, and his sons slain, he and his armourbearer kill themselves. 7The Philistines take possession of the towns deserted by the Israelites. 8They insult over the dead bodies of Saul and his sons. 11The men of Jabesh-gilead recover the bodies by night, burn them, and bury their bones at Jabesh.
1 Now the 1Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down aslain in mount 2Gilboa.
2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew 1Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, Saul's sons.
3 And the 1battle went sore against Saul, and the aarchers bhit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
4 Then 1said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest 2these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and aabuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul 3took a sword, and 4fell upon it.
5 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.
6 So Saul 1died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.
7 ¶ And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, 1they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
8 And 1it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
9 And 1they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.
10 And they put his armour in the house of 1Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
11 ¶ And when the inhabitants of 1Jabesh-gilead heard aof that which the Philistines had done to Saul;
12 1All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and 2burnt them there.
13 And they took 1their bones, and buried them under 2a tree at Jabesh, and 3fasted 4seven days.
1 Samuel 31