4
Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, so that these uncircumcised may not come and make sport of me." But his armor-bearer was unwilling, for he was terrified. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.
5
When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died.
6
Thus Saul died; he and his three sons and all his house died together.
7
When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their towns and fled; and the Philistines came and occupied them.
8
The next day when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
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