His armor bearer said to him, "Do everything that is on your mind. Do as you're inclined. I'm with you all the way!"

The Preeminent One of Israel does not go back on his word or change his mind, for he is not a human being who changes his mind."

When the servant had left, David got up from beside the mound, knelt with his face to the ground, and bowed three times. Then they kissed each other and they both wept, especially David.

When Saul learned that David had fled to Gath, he did not mount a new search for him.

Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel. The men of Israel fled from the Philistines and many of them fell dead on Mount Gilboa.

The next day, when the Philistines came to strip loot from the corpses, they discovered Saul and his three sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa.