1 Chronicles 10
1WHEN the Philistines fought against Israel and the Israelites fled before them, and fell down slain on mount Gelbue,
2the Philistines pursued close after Saul and after his sons; and when they had slain Jonathan and Aminadab and Melchisue, the sons of Saul, the weight of the battle was directed against Saul.
3And the archers assailed him with bows, and darts, and wounded him with arrows.
4Whereupon Saul said to his armour-bearer, Draw thy sword and run me through with it, lest the uncircumcised come and insult me. But his armour-bearer would not; for he was greatly terrified. Thereupon Saul took the sword and fell on it.
5And when his armour-bearer saw that he was dead, he also fell on his sword.
6Thus Saul died with his three sons that day. And all his house died together.
7And when the Israelites who dwelt in the plain, saw that Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead they left their cities and fled, and the Philistines came and dwelt therein.
8Now on the next day when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen, on mount Gelbue.
9And when they had stripped him, they took his head and his armour, and sent them to the land of the Philistines round about, to proclaim the good news to their idols, and to the people.
10And having deposited his armour in the house of their god, they fixed up his head, in the house of Dagon.
11But when all the inhabitants of Galaad heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul and Israel,
12all the valiant men of Galaad arose and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and carried them to Jabis and buried their bones under the oak at Jabis, and fasted seven days.
13Thus died Saul, for his transgressions, which he had committed against God, according to the word of the Lord. Because he did not keep watch—
14because Saul sought to consult by a trance-speaker, therefore Samuel the prophet answered him, though he sought not the Lord, and the Lord slew him, and transferred the kingdom to David, son of Jessai.