1 Chronicles 10

10^*Now ^athe Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down ^||slain in mount Gilboa. ²And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and ^||Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul. ³And the battle went sore against Saul, and the ^†archers ^†hit him, and he was wounded of the archers. ⁴Then said Saul to his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and ^||abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. So Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. ⁵And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on the sword, and died. ⁶So Saul died, and his three sons, and all ^bhis house died together.

⁷And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that ^cthey fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, then they forsook their cities, and fled: and the Philistines came and dwelt in them. ⁸And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa. ⁹And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings ^dunto their idols, and to the people. ¹⁰And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened ^ehis head in the temple of Dagon. ¹¹And when all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul, ¹²They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under ^fthe oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. ¹³So Saul died for his transgression which he ^†committed against the Lord, even ^gagainst the word of the Lord, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of ^hone that had a familiar spirit, to inquire of it; ¹⁴And ⁱinquired not of the Lord: therefore he slew him, and ^kturned the kingdom unto David the son of ^†Jesse.