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1 Samuel 31:6-13 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

6. Thus Sha’ul died, and three of his sons, and his armour-bearer, also all his men, together on that day.

7. And they saw – the men of Yisra’ĕl who were beyond the valley, and those who were beyond the Yardĕn – that the men of Yisra’ĕl had fled and that Sha’ul and his sons were dead. So they forsook the 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 three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

9. And they cut off his head and stripped off his armour, and sent word throughout the land of the Philistines, to announce it in the house of their idols and to the people.

10. And they placed his armour in the house of the Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Bĕyth Shan.

11. And the inhabitants of Yaḇĕsh Gil‛aḏ heard what the Philistines had done to Sha’ul,

12. and all the brave men arose and went all night, and took the body of Sha’ul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bĕyth Shan. And they came to Yaḇĕsh and burned them there.

13. And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Yaḇĕsh, and fasted for seven days.

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