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* Now the Philistines fought against Israel . The Israelites fled from them , and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa . * The Philistines pressed hard after Saul and his sons , and they killed his sons Jonathan , Abinadab and Malki-Shua . * The fighting grew fierce around Saul , and when the archers overtook him , they wounded him . * Saul said to his armor-bearer : »Draw your sword and run me through , or these uncircumcised fellows will come and abuse me .« But his armor-bearer was terrified and would not do it . So Saul took his own sword and fell on it . * When the armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead , he too fell on his sword and died . * Saul , his three sons and his entire house died together . * When all the Israelites in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died , they abandoned their towns and fled . And the Philistines came and occupied them . * The next day , when the Philistines came to strip the dead they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa . * They stripped him and took his head and his armor , and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news among their idols and their people . * They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung up his head in the temple of Dagon . * When all the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard of everything the Philistines had done to Saul , * all their fighting men took the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh . They buried their bones under the great tree in Jabesh . Then they fasted seven days . * Saul died because of his unfaithfulness to Jehovah . He did not obey the word of Jehovah . He asked a medium to request information from a dead person . * He did not request information from Jehovah . Thus Jehovah killed him and turned the kingship over to David , Jesse ’s son .

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