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But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>It happened 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="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>They cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to their idols, and to the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But when the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>all the valiant men arose and traveled all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan, and brought them to Jabesh and burnt them there. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/1_samuel/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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