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But his armor bearer would not, for he was greatly afraid. So Saul took his sword and fell on it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/31-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/31-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>Thus Saul died with his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men on that day together.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/31-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, with those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; then the Philistines came and lived in them.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/31-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>It came about on the next day when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/31-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>They cut off his head and stripped off his weapons, and sent <i>them</i> throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to the house of their idols and to the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/31-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>They put his weapons in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/31-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Now when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/31-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>all the valiant men rose and walked all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/31-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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