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And Saul said to his armor-bearer, Draw your sword and pierce me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and pierce me through and mock me. But his armor-bearer was not willing, for he was greatly afraid. And Saul took the sword and fell upon it.
And the men of Israel who were beyond the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead; and they abandon their cities and flee, and the Philistines come and dwell in them.
And it came to pass on the next day, and the Philistines come to strip the dead, and they find Saul and his three sons fallen on the mountains of Gelbue.
And they turn him over and stripped off his armor, and they send it round about into the land of the Philistines, bringing the good news to their idols and to their people.
And every man of valor arose and they went all the night, and they took the body of Saul and the body of Jonathan his son from the wall of Baithsan, and they bring them to Iabis and burn them there.