1 Samuel 31
1NOW when the Philistines attacked Israel, the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and the wounded fell on the mountain Gelbua,
2and the Philistines came to a close engagement with Saul and his sons, and the Philistines smote Jonathan, and Aminadab, and Melchisa, sons of Saul.
3And the battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded under the breastbone,
4whereupon Saul said to his armour-bearer, Draw thy sword, and run me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and stab me, and insult me. But his armour-bearer would not, for he was struck with horror. Therefore Saul took the sword, and fell on it.
5And when his armour-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword, and died with him.
6Thus Saul, and his three sons, and his armour-bearer, died on the same day in the same place.
7And when the men of Israel who were on this side the vale, and they who were on the bank of the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel 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 morrow when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul, and his three sons, fallen on the mountains of Gelbua.
9And they treated him scornfully, and stripped off his armour, and sent it to the land of the Philistines, proclaiming the good news all around to their idols, and to the people.
10And they hung up his arms in the temple of Astarte, and fixed up his body on the wall of Baithsam.
11But when the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
12they arose, even all the men of valour, and marched the whole night, and took the body of Saul, and the body of Jonathan his son, from the wall of Baithsam, and carried them to Jabis and there burned them.
13Then they took their bones, and buried them in the field at Jabis, and fasted seven days.