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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Samuel 31 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_samuel/31.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_samuel/31-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > 1 Samuel 31</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_samuel/30.htm" title="1 Samuel 30">◄</a> 1 Samuel 31 <a href="../2_samuel/1.htm" title="2 Samuel 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The Death of Saul and His Sons</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="1CH 10:1-12">1 Chronicles 10.1-12</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v9_31_1"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.31.1" class="v9_31_1">1</span>The Philistines fought a battle against the Israelites on Mount Gilboa. Many Israelites were killed there, and the rest of them, including King Saul and his sons, fled. </span><span class="v9_31_2"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.31.2" class="v9_31_2">2</span>But the Philistines caught up with them and killed three of Saul's sons, Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua. </span><span class="v9_31_3"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.31.3" class="v9_31_3">3</span>The fighting was heavy around Saul, and he himself was hit by enemy arrows and badly wounded. </span><span class="v9_31_4"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.31.4" class="v9_31_4">4</span>He said to the young man carrying his weapons, “Draw your sword and kill me, so that these godless Philistines won't gloat over me and kill me.” But the young man was too terrified to do it. So Saul took his own sword and threw himself on it. </span><span class="v9_31_5"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.31.5" class="v9_31_5">5</span>The young man saw that Saul was dead, so he too threw himself on his own sword and died with Saul. </span><span class="v9_31_6"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.31.6" class="v9_31_6">6</span>And that is how Saul, his three sons, and the young man died; all of Saul's men died that day. </span><span class="v9_31_7"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.31.7" class="v9_31_7">7</span>When the Israelites on the other side of Jezreel Valley and east of the Jordan River heard that the Israelite army had fled and that Saul and his sons had been killed, they abandoned their towns and fled. Then the Philistines came and occupied the towns.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_31_8"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.31.8" class="v9_31_8">8</span>The day after the battle the Philistines went to plunder the corpses, and they found the bodies of Saul and his three sons lying on Mount Gilboa. </span><span class="v9_31_9"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.31.9" class="v9_31_9">9</span>They cut off Saul's head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers with them throughout Philistia to tell the good news to their idols and to their people. </span><span class="v9_31_10"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.31.10" class="v9_31_10">10</span>Then they put his weapons in the temple of the goddess Astarte, and they nailed his body to the wall of the city of Beth Shan.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_31_11"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.31.11" class="v9_31_11">11</span>When the people of Jabesh in Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, </span><span class="v9_31_12"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.31.12" class="v9_31_12">12</span>the bravest men started out and marched all night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall, brought them back to Jabesh, and burned them there. </span><span class="v9_31_13"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.31.13" class="v9_31_13">13</span>Then they took the bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in town, and fasted for seven days.</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p class="yiv9003199930MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Bible text from the Good News Translation (GNT) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). 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