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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 Chronicles 10</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_chronicles/10.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_chronicles/10-1.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_chronicles/">1 Chronicles</a> > 1 Chronicles 10</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_chronicles/9.htm" title="1 Chronicles 9">◄</a> 1 Chronicles 10 <a href="../1_chronicles/11.htm" title="1 Chronicles 11">►</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_chronicles/10.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/1_chronicles/10.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/1_chronicles/10.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/1_chronicles/10.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/1_chronicles/10.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/1_chronicles/10.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_chronicles/10.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 ="../1_samuel/31.htm">1 Samuel 31:1–6</a>; <a href ="../2_samuel/1.htm">2 Samuel 1:1–16</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/10-1.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_chronicles/10-2.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_chronicles/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/10-4.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 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_chronicles/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his own sword and died. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So Saul died together with his three sons and all his house. <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">The Philistines Possess the Towns<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_samuel/31.htm#7">1 Samuel 31:7–10</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When all the Israelites in the valley saw that the army 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_chronicles/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>They stripped Saul, cut off his head, took his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temple of their idols and among their people. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon. <A name="12"></a><p class="hdg">Jabesh-gilead’s Tribute to Saul<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_samuel/31.htm#11">1 Samuel 31:11–13</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard about everything the Philistines had done to Saul, <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>all their men of valor set out and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> in Jabesh and fasted seven days. <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and he failed to inquire of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>terebinth</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>great tree</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><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>. Used by Permission. All rights Reserved. Free <a href=http://berean.bible/downloads.htm>downloads</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible/licensing.htm>licensing</a> available. 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