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New Testament
1 Chronicles 10
The Death of Saul
(1 Samuel 31:1-13)[]
101The Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from the Philistines and fell mortally wounded at Mount Gilboa. 2The Philistines were closing in on Saul and his sons. They struck down Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malkishua, the sons of Saul. 3The attack directed at Saul was fierce. The archers targeted him and hit him, and he was in great pain from his wounds.
4Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through so that these uncircumcised fellows do not come and abuse me.”
His armor bearer would not do it because he was too afraid. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it. 5When the armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his sword and died. 6So Saul died, and his three sons, his entire house, died together.
7When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that their army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. Then the Philistines came and lived in them.
8On the next day when the Philistines came to strip those who had been killed in the battle, they found Saul and his sons fallen at Mount Gilboa. 9They stripped Saul, carried off his head and his armor, and sent them throughout Philistia to spread the good news to their idols and people. 10They put Saul's armor and weapons in the temple of their gods and impaled his skull in the temple of Dagon.
11The entire city of Jabesh Gilead heard about everything that the Philistines had done to Saul. 12So all the courageous, strong men set out and carried away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons. They brought them to Jabesh and buried their bones under the terebinth[] tree in Jabesh. Then they fasted for seven days.
13Saul died as a result of the unfaithfulness which he had commited against the Lord by not keeping the Lord's command and by seeking a medium to direct his actions. 14He did not seek guidance from the Lord. That is why the Lord brought about his death and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.
Footnotes
- 10:1 In those passages of Chronicles in which the Hebrew text is a very close parallel to passages in Samuel or Kings, the EHV has not made the two English translations verbatim reproductions. Although the wording of the two translations has been harmonized to a large degree, some of the individual shading of the two translations, which were done independently, has been preserved. EHV does, however, reflect the points at which the wording of the two Hebrew texts is different. When the wording of the two texts gives strikingly different information, this may be indicated by a footnote. See the note on 10:12 as an example.
- 10:12 In 1 Samuel 31:13 it reads tamarisk.