| New International Version | King James Bible |
| 1Now the Philistines fought against Israel; the Israelites fled before them, and many fell dead on Mount Gilboa. | 1Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa. |
| 2The Philistines were in hot pursuit of Saul and his sons, and they killed his sons Jonathan, Abinadab and Malki-Shua. | 2And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons. |
| 3The fighting grew fierce around Saul, and when the archers overtook him, they wounded him critically. | 3And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. |
| 4Saul 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. | 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. |
| 5When the armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his sword and died with him. | 5And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him. |
| 6So Saul and his three sons and his armor-bearer and all his men died together that same day. | 6So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together. |
| 7When 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. | 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. |
| 8The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. | 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. |
| 9They 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. | 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. |
| 10They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan. | 10And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan. |
| 11When the people of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, | 11And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul; |
| 12all their valiant men marched 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. | 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 Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there. |
| 13Then they took their bones and buried them under a tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted seven days. | 13And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days. |
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