⁴And Saul said to his armourbearer: Draw thy sword, and kill me: lest these uncircumcised come, and mock me. But his armourbearer would not, for he was struck with fear: so Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.

⁵And when his armourbearer saw it, to wit, that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died.

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

⁷And when the men of Israel, that dwelt in the plains, saw this, they fled: and Saul and his sons being dead, they forsook their cities, and were scattered up and down: and the Philistines came, and dwelt in them.

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

⁹And when they had stripped him, and cut off his head, and taken away his armour, they sent it into their land, to be carried about, and shewn in the temples of the idols and to the people.

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

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