NITHYAM SONGS1 Samuel 31
World English Bible (WEB) • 13 verses
1Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.
Related1 Chronicles 10:1-12 · 1 Samuel 28:4 · 2 Samuel 1:21 · 1 Samuel 28:1 · 1 Samuel 12:25 · 1 Samuel 28:15
2The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
Related1 Chronicles 8:33 · 1 Samuel 14:49 · 1 Samuel 23:17 · 1 Samuel 13:2 · 2 Samuel 1:6 · Exodus 20:5
3The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.
4Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me!” But his armor bearer would not, for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell on it.
Related2 Samuel 1:9-10 · Judges 9:54 · 2 Samuel 1:6 · 2 Samuel 1:20 · 2 Samuel 17:23 · 1 Samuel 14:6
5When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.
Related1 Chronicles 10:5
6So Saul died with his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men that same day together.
Related1 Samuel 12:25 · 1 Samuel 12:17 · 1 Samuel 4:10-11 · 1 Samuel 11:15 · Hosea 13:10-11 · 1 Chronicles 10:6
7When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
8On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
9They cut off his head, stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to the house of their idols and to the people.
Related2 Samuel 1:20 · Judges 16:23-24 · 1 Chronicles 10:9-10 · 1 Samuel 17:54 · 1 Samuel 17:51 · 1 Samuel 31:4
10They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.
11When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
12all the valiant men arose, went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh and burned them there.
13They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
RelatedGenesis 50:10 · 2 Samuel 21:12-14 · 2 Samuel 1:12 · 1 Samuel 22:6 · 2 Samuel 2:4-5 · Genesis 35:8
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.