1. After the death of Saul, David returned from defeating the Amalekites and he stayed at Ziklag two days.
2. On the third day, a man came from the camp from being with Saul, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the ground and bowed down.
3. David said to him, “Where did you come from?” He said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.”
4. Then David said to him, “How did things go? Please tell me.” He answered, “When the army fled from the battle, and many of the people fell; also, Saul and Jonathan his son died.”
5. Then David asked the young man who was reporting to him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan died?”
6. The young man who was reporting to him said, “I merely happened to be on Mount Gilboa. Here Saul was leaning on his spear, and look, the chariots and the horsemen were getting close to him.
7. When he turned around and saw me, he called to me, and I said, ‘Here I am.’
8. Then he said to me, ‘Who are you?’ And I said to him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’