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1 Samuel chapter 31

The were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel ran from the Philistines and fell dead on .The Philistines closed in on Saul and his sons, and the Philistines , Abinadab, and Malchi-shua — Saul’s sons.The battle against Saul, and the found him and wounded him badly.Saul said to his , “Draw your sword and run me through with it, or these men will come and run me through and .” But his armor-bearer wouldn’t do it — he was too terrified. So Saul took the sword himself and .When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his own sword and died with him.So Saul died — and his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men — .When the men of Israel on the other side of the valley and on the other side of the Jordan saw that the Israelite army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they their cities and ran. Then the Philistines came and occupied them.The next day, when the Philistines came to , they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.They cut off his head, stripped his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to spread the news in the and among the people.They put his armor in the and of .When the people of heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,all the set out and marched through the night. They took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, brought them back to Jabesh, and there.Then they took the bones and buried them under the at Jabesh, and they .