Thematic Bible
1 Samuel 31:1 (show verse)
1 Samuel 31:2 (show verse)
The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua the sons of Saul.
1 Samuel 31:3 (show verse)
1 Samuel 31:4 (show verse)
1 Samuel 31:5 (show verse)
When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died with him.
1 Samuel 31:6 (show verse)
Thus Saul died with his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men on that day together.
1 Samuel 31:7 (show verse)
When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, with those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; then the Philistines came and lived in them.
1 Samuel 31:8 (show verse)
It came about on the next day when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
1 Samuel 31:9 (show verse)
They cut off his head and stripped off his weapons, and sent them throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to the house of their idols and to the people.
1 Samuel 31:10 (show verse)
They put his weapons in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
1 Samuel 31:11 (show verse)
Now when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
1 Samuel 31:12 (show verse)
1 Samuel 31:13 (show verse)
They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.