¶ The .x. Chapter.¶ The battell of Saul agaynst the Philistines: in
whych he dyeth, and hys sonnes also.
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AAnd the Philistines fought agaynst
Israel. noteAnd the m&ebar; of Israel
fled before the Philistines,
∧ were ouerthrowen ∧ wo&ubar;ded
in Mounte Gilboa. And þe; Philistines
folowed, ∧ were fearce after Saul ∧
his sonnes, ∧ the Philistines smote Ichonathan
∧ Abinadab ∧ Malchisua the sonnes of
Saul: And the battell went sore agaynst
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Dauid
Saul, ∧ the archers founde hym, and he was
wo&ubar;ded of shoters. Then sayde Saul to his
wep&obar; bearer note drawe thy swerde, and thrust
me thorow therwith, that these vncirc&ubar;cised
come not and do me shame. B But hys wepon
bearer wolde not, for he feared excedynglye.
So Saul caught a swerde, and fell vpon it.
And when his harnesbearer sawe that Saul
was deed, he fell on a swerde also and dyed.
And thus Saul and his thre sonnes, and
all they of hys house dyed together. And wh&ebar;
all the men of Israel that were in the valeye,
sawe howe they fled, and that Saul and his
sonnes were deed, they forsoke theyr cyties
and ranne awaye, and the Philistines came,
and dwelt in them.
CnoteAnd it fortuned that on the morowe
when the Philistines came to stripe the deed
bodies) they fo&ubar;de Saul ∧ hys sonnes ouerthrowen
in mount Gilboe. And when they
had stript hym, they toke hys heed, and hys
harnesse, and sent them into the lande of the
Philistines rounde aboute to shewe th&ebar; vnto
theyr Idols, and to the people. And they
put his harnesse in the house of theyr God, ∧
set vp hys heade in the temple of Dagon.
D And when all they of Iabes in Gilead
hearde all that the Philistines had done to
Saul: they arose (all the strongest of them)
and fet awaye the body of Saul, and the bodyes
of his sonnes, and brought them to Iabes,
and buryed the bones of them vnder an
oke in Iabes and fasted seuen dayes.
So Saul dyed for hys trespace that he
trespaced agaynst the Lorde, in þt; he kept not
the worde of the Lorde, and in that he sought
and asked councell of a wom&abar; that wrought
with a sprete, and asked not of þe; Lorde. And
therfore he slue hym, and turned the kyngdome
vnto Dauid the sonne of Isai.
