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          DASV: 1 Chronicles 10    

1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and were killed on Mount Gilboa.
2 The Philistines bore down on Saul and his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, Abinadab, Malki-Shua, the sons of Saul.
3 The battle grew fierce against Saul; and the archers overtook him and wounded him.
4 Then Saul told his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword, and stab me with it, so that these uncircumcised enemies may not come and abuse me." But his armor-bearer would not do it; because he was terrified. So Saul took his own sword, and fell on it.
5 When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died.
6 So Saul and his three sons died, and his entire household died together.
7 When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their towns, and fled. The Philistines came and occupied their towns.

8 The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons dead on Mount Gilboa.
9 They stripped him, and took his head and his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, to report the news to their idols, and to the people.
10 They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
11 But when all Jabesh-gilead heard everything that the Philistines had done to Saul,
12 all the valiant warriors got up, and rescued the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and brought them back to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
13 So Saul died for his unfaithfulness that he committed against the LORD, because he did not obey the word of that LORD; and also because he asked counsel from a spiritual medium to seek guidance.
14 He did not inquire of the LORD. So he killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.

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