Saul Takes His Life^(A)

31 Now the Philistines fought against Israel; the Israelites fled before them, and many fell dead on Mount Gilboa.^(B)

³ The fighting grew fierce around Saul, and when the archers overtook him, they wounded^(A) him critically.

⁶ “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,^(A)” the young man said, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and their drivers in hot pursuit.

¹² he went and took the bones of Saul^(A) and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead.^(B) (They had stolen their bodies from the public square at Beth Shan,^(C) where the Philistines had hung^(D) them after they struck Saul down on Gilboa.)^(E)