31Now the Philistines fought against Israel; the Israelites fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.H6430H3898H3478H582H3478H5127H6440H6430H5307H2491H2022H15332The Philistines pressed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed his sons Jonathan, Abinadab and Malki-Shua.H6430H1692H7586H1121H6430H5221H3083H41H4444H7586H11213The fighting grew fierce around Saul, and when the archers overtook him, they wounded him critically.H4421H3513H7586H3384H582H7198H4672H3966H2342H3384H582H71984Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword and run me through, or these uncircumcised fellows will come and run me through and abuse me." But his armor-bearer was terrified and would not do it; so Saul took his own sword and fell on it.H559H7586H5375H3627H8025H2719H1856H6189H935H1856H5953H5375H3627H14H3966H3372H7586H3947H2719H53075When the armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his sword and died with him.H5375H3627H7200H7586H4191H5307H2719H41916So Saul and his three sons and his armor-bearer and all his men died together that same day.H7586H4191H7969H1121H5375H3627H582H3117H31627When the Israelites along the valley and those across the Jordan saw that the Israelite army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their towns and fled. And the Philistines came and occupied them.H582H3478H5676H6010H5676H3383H7200H582H3478H5127H7586H1121H4191H5800H5892H5127H6430H935H34278The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.H4283H6430H935H6584H2491H4672H7586H7969H1121H5307H2022H15339They cut off his head and stripped off his armor, and they sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temple of their idols and among their people.H3772H7218H6584H3627H7971H776H6430H5439H1319H1004H6091H597110They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.H7760H3627H1004H6252H1045H8628H1472H2346H105211When the people of Jabesh Gilead heard of what the Philistines had done to Saul,H3427H3003H1568H8085H6430H6213H758612all their valiant men journeyed through the night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan and went to Jabesh, where they burned them.H2428H376H381H6965H3212H3915H3947H1472H7586H1472H1121H2346H1052H935H3003H831313Then they took their bones and buried them under a tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.H3947H6106H6912H815H3003H6684H7651H3117