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When all the people of Israel in the valley saw that [their army] had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities. So the Philistines came to live in these cities.
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The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons lying on Mount Gilboa.
9
They stripped him and took his head and his armor. Then they sent men throughout Philistine territory to tell their idols and the people this good news.
10
They put his armor in the temple of their gods and fastened his head to the temple of Dagon.
11
When all the people of Jabesh Gilead heard about everything the Philistines had done to Saul,
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all the fighting men came and took away the dead bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. They buried the bones under the oak tree in Jabesh. Then they fasted seven days.
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So Saul died because of his unfaithfulness to the LORD: He did not obey the word of the LORD. He asked a medium to request information [from a dead person].
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He didn't request information from the LORD. So the LORD killed him and turned the kingship over to David, Jesse's son.
This part, 1Ch 10:1-12 which gives an account of the last battle of Saul with the Philistines, and of his death and burial, is the same with 1Sa 31:1-13 see the notes there; the cause of his death follows in 1Ch 10:13.