1The Philistines were throwing down against Israel, and the Israelites dipped hard, getting wrecked on Mount Gilboa.

2The Philistines chased Saul and his crew, and they took out Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, Saul’s sons.

3The battle was brutal for Saul, and the archers tagged him; he was super hurt.

4Saul told his armor-bearer, "Yo, stab me with your sword so these uncircumcised don’t come and clown me." But his armor-bearer was shook and wouldn’t do it, so Saul just took a sword and went for it.

5When the armor-bearer saw Saul was done for, he also went for his sword and died with him.

6So Saul, his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his boys were gone that same day.

7The Israelites on the other side of the valley and Jordan saw the squad dip and that Saul and his sons were kaput, so they bounced from the cities, and the Philistines moved in.

8The next day, when the Philistines came to loot the fallen, they found Saul and his three sons down on Mount Gilboa.

9They chopped off his head, stripped his armor, and sent it all over Philistine land to flex in front of their idols and people.

10They tossed his armor in Ashtaroth's crib and nailed his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

11When the peeps in Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines did to Saul,

12All the brave ones got up, rolled all night, and took Saul and his sons' bodies from the wall of Beth-shan, then went to Jabesh and burned them up.

13They grabbed their bones and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, then fasted for seven days.

1Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.

2And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi–shua, Saul’s sons.

3And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.

4Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

5And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.

6So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

7And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

8And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.

9And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.

10And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth–shan.

11And when the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;

12All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth–shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.

13And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.