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When all the Israelites in the Jezreel Valley saw that their army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their towns and fled. So the Philistines moved in and occupied their towns.
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The next day, when the Philistines went out to strip the dead, they found the bodies of Saul and his sons on Mount Gilboa.
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So they stripped off Saul’s armor and cut off his head. Then they proclaimed the good news of Saul’s death before their idols and to the people throughout the land of Philistia.
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They placed his armor in the temple of their gods, and they fastened his head to the temple of Dagon.
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But when everyone in Jabesh-gilead heard about everything the Philistines had done to Saul,
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all their mighty warriors brought the bodies of Saul and his sons back to Jabesh. Then they buried their bones beneath the great tree at Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days.
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So Saul died because he was unfaithful to the LORD . He failed to obey the LORD ’s command, and he even consulted a medium
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instead of asking the LORD for guidance. So the LORD killed him and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.
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.