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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="/bmc//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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/1_samuel/">1 Samuel</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 align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/1_samuel/31.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/1_samuel/31.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/1_samuel/31.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/1_samuel/31.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/1_samuel/31.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/1_samuel/31.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/31.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Saul’s Overthrow and Death<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_samuel/1.htm">2 Samuel 1:1–16</a>; <a href ="../1_chronicles/10.htm">1 Chronicles 10:1–6</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa. <A name="3"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him critically. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run it through me, or these uncircumcised men will come and run me through and torture me!” <p class="reg"> But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it. <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his own sword and died with him. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So Saul, his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men died together that same day. <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 class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When the Israelites along the valley and those on the other side of the Jordan saw that the army of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their cities and ran away. So the Philistines came and occupied their cities. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among their people. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan. <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 class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. <p class="reg"> When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.</p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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