Saul told his armor bearer, "Draw your sword and stab me with it. Otherwise these uncircumcised people will come and torture me." But his armor bearer refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died.

They stripped his corpse, and then carried off his head and his armor. They sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines proclaiming the news to their idols and their people.

They placed his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.

Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, the armor-bearer of Joab son of Zeruiah,