1Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.[ † ]1 Samuel 23:221 Chronicles 10:1-12
2The Philistines hotly pursued Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.[ † ]1 Samuel 28:4 3When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him critically.[ † ]1 Samuel 14:491 Chronicles 8:33
4Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, or these uncircumcised men will come and run me through and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.[ † ]2 Samuel 1:6Judges 9:541 Chronicles 10:4Judges 14:31 Samuel 14:61 Samuel 17:26-362 Samuel 1:14
5When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his own sword and died with him.
6So Saul, his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men died together that same day.
7When the Israelites along the valley and those on the other side of the Jordan saw that the army of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their cities and ran away. So the Philistines came and occupied their cities.
8The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. 9They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among their people.[ † ]2 Samuel 1:6-10 10They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.[ † ]Judges 16:23-242 Samuel 1:201 Samuel 21:9Judges 2:131 Samuel 7:32 Samuel 21:12
11When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,[ † ]Judges 1:27
12all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.[ † ]1 Samuel 11:1-131 Samuel 11:1-112 Samuel 2:4-7 13Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.[ † ]2 Chronicles 16:14Jeremiah 34:5Amos 6:102 Samuel 2:4-52 Samuel 21:12-14