4. And Sha’ul said to his armour-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised ones come and abuse me.” But his armour-bearer would not, for he was much afraid, so Sha’ul took a sword and fell on it.
5. And when his armour-bearer saw that Sha’ul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died.
6. Thus Sha’ul and his three sons died, and all his house – they died together.
7. And when all the men of Yisra’ĕl who were in the valley saw that they had fled and that Sha’ul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities and fled, and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
8. And the next day it came to be, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Sha’ul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
9. And they stripped him and took his head and his armour, and sent word throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news among their idols and among the people,
10. and put his armour in the house of their mighty ones, and fastened his head in the house of Dag̅on.
11. And all Yaḇĕsh Gil‛aḏ heard of all that the Philistines had done to Sha’ul,