let me set before you a little food, and eat that
you may have strength to go on your way." Saul refused and said, "I will
not eat"; but his servants, as well as the woman, urged him, until he
listened to their advice. Then he rose from the earth and sat upon the
couch. And the woman had a fat calf in the house which she quickly
killed. And she took flour and kneaded it and baked from it bread
without yeast. She set it before Saul and his servants, and they ate.
Then they rose up and went away that night.

The Philistines fought against Israel, but the Israelites fled from them
and fell dead on Mount Gilboa. Then the Philistines closely followed
Saul and his sons; and they killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchishua,
the sons of Saul. So the battle went against Saul, and when the archers
found out where he was, he was severely wounded. Then Saul said to his
armor-bearer, "Draw your sword and kill me with it, so that these
heathen Philistines may not come and make sport of me." But his
armor-bearer would not, for he was very much afraid. Saul, therefore,
took his own sword and fell upon it. When his armor-bearer saw that Saul
was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died with him. So Saul and his
three sons and his armor-bearer died on the same day.

When the Israelites who were in the towns of the lowland and across the
Jordan saw that the Israelites had fled and that Saul and his sons were
dead, they left their towns and fled, and the Philistines came and took
them.

On the next day, the Philistines came to rob the dead, and found that
Saul and his three sons had fallen on Mount Gilboa. They cut off his
head and stripped off his armor and sent messengers through all the land
of the Philistines to bring the good news to their idols and to the
people. And they put his armor in the temple of Ashtarte and fastened
his body on the wall of Bethshan.

When the inhabitants of Jabesh in Gilead heard what the Philistines had
done to Saul, their brave men rose up and marched all night, and they
took the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Bethshan and
brought them to Jabesh and mourned over them there. Then they took their
bones and buried them under the oak-tree in Jabesh and ate no food for
seven days.

On the third day after David returned to Ziklag, after defeating the
Amalekites, a man came from the camp of Saul with his clothes torn and
with earth upon his head. When he came to David, he fell on the ground
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