2 Samuel 1:4–10

⁴And David said to him, “^aHow did things go? Tell me now.” And he said, “The people have fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.”

⁵So David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”

⁶And the young man who told him said, “By chance I happened to be on ^aMount Gilboa, and behold, ^bSaul was leaning on his spear. And behold, the chariots and the horsemen pursued him closely.

⁷“Then he turned to look behind him, and he saw me and called to me. And I said, ‘Here I am.’

⁸“And he said to me, ‘Who are you?’ And I ¹answered him, ‘^aI am an Amalekite.’

⁹“Then he said to me, ‘Please stand beside me and put me to death, for agony has seized me because my ¹life still lingers in me.’

¹⁰“So I stood beside him ^aand put him to death, because I knew that he could not live after he had fallen. And ^bI took the crown which was on his head and the bracelet which was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.”