Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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The Death of Saul and His Sons
(1 Chronicles 10.1–12)
1 The Philistines fought a battle
against the Israelites on
Mount Gilboa. Many Israelites were
killed there, and the rest of them, including
King Saul and his sons, fled.
2 But the Philistines caught up with
them and killed three of Saul's sons,
Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.
3 The fighting was heavy
around Saul, and he himself was hit
by enemy arrows and badly
wounded.
4 He said to the young
man carrying his weapons, “Draw
your sword and kill me, so that these
godless Philistines won't gloat over
me and kill me.” But the young man
was too terrified to do it. So Saul
took his own sword and threw himself
self on it.
5 The young man saw that
Saul was dead, so he too threw himself
on his own sword and died with
Saul.
6 And that is how Saul, his
three sons, and the young man died;
all of Saul's men died that day.
7 When the Israelites on the other
side of Jezreel Valley and east of the
Jordan River heard that the Israelite
army had fled and that Saul and his
sons had been killed, they abandoned
their towns and fled. Then the
Philistines came and occupied the
towns.
8 The day after the battle the Philistines
went to plunder the corpses,
and they found the bodies of Saul
and his three sons lying on Mount
Gilboa.
9 They cut off Saul's head,
stripped off his armor, and sent messengers
with them throughout Philistia
to tell the good news to their
idols and to their people.
10 Then
they put his weapons in the temple
of the goddess Astarte, and they
nailed his body to the wall of the city
of Beth Shan.
11 When the people of Jabesh in
Gilead heard what the Philistines
had done to Saul,
12 the bravest men
started out and marched all night to
Beth Shan. They took down the bodies
of Saul and his sons from the
wall, brought them back to Jabesh,
and burned them there.
13 Then they
took the bones and buried them under
the tamarisk tree in town, and
fasted for seven days.
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Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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