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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 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../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="../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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/31-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Saul’s Overthrow and Death<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the Philistines fought with Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and they fall down wounded in the mountain in Gelbue. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And the Philistines press closely on Saul and his sons, and the Philistines smite Jonathan, and Aminadab, and Melchisa son of Saul. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And the battle prevails against Saul, and the shooters with arrows, even the archers find him, and he was wounded under the ribs. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And Saul said to his armour-bearer, Draw thy sword and pierce me through with it; lest these uncircumcised come and pierce me through, and mock me. But his armour-bearer would not, for he feared greatly: so Saul took his sword and fell upon it. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And his armour-bearer saw that Saul was dead, and he fell also himself upon his sword, and died with him. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armour-bearer, in that day together.<p> <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">The Philistines Possess the Towns<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those beyond Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead; and they leave their cities and flee: and the Philistines 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 came to pass on the morrow that the Philistines come to strip the dead, and they find Saul and his three sons fallen on the mountains of Gelbue. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And they turned him, and stripped off his armour, and sent it into the land of the Philistines, sending round glad tidings to their idols 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 set up his armour at the temple of Astarte, and they fastened his body on the wall of Baethsam.<p> <A name="12"></a><p class="hdg">Jabesh-gilead’s Tribute to Saul<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad hear what the Philistines did to Saul. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And they rose up, <i>even</i> every man of might, and marched all night, and took the body of Saul and the body of Jonathan his son from the wall of Baethsam; and they bring them to Jabis, and burn them there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And they take their bones, and bury them in the field that is in Jabis, and fast seven days.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_samuel/30.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Samuel 30"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 30" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_samuel/1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Samuel 1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Samuel 1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>