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1 Samuel 31 Smith's Literal Translation
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And he lifting up his arms would not, for he will fear greatly; and Saul will take the sword and will fall upon it. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And he lifting up his arms will fear, for he saw Saul died; and he will fall, also he, upon his sword, and he will die with him. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Saul will die, and his three sons, and he lifting up his arms, also all his men in that day together.<p> <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">The Philistines Possess the Towns<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_chronicles/10.htm#7">1 Chronicles 10:7–10</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the men of Israel will see, who are on the the other side of the valley, and who are on the other side of Jordan, that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul died and his sons, and they will leave their cities, and flee; and the rovers will come and dwell in them.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And it will be on the morrow, and the rovers will come to strip the wounded, and they will find Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And they will cut off his head, and they will strip off his arms, and send into the land of the rovers round about, to announce good news to the house of their images and to the people. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And they will put up his arms in the house of Ashtaroth: and his body they will hang up upon the wall of the House of Quiet.<p> <A name="12"></a><p class="hdg">Jabesh-gilead’s Tribute to Saul<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_chronicles/10.htm#11">1 Chronicles 10:11–14</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead will hear concerning him what the rovers did to Saul, <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And they will rise, every man of strength, and go all night and take the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the walls of the House of Quiet, and come to Jabesh, and burn them there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And they will take their bones and bury under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they will fast seven days.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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