1 Chronicles 10:1

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1 Chronicles 10:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

2 The Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

3 When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him.

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1 Samuel 28:1

Now in those days the Philistines gathered their forces for warfare against Israel. So Achish said to David, “You must understand that you and your men are to go out to battle with me.”

1 Samuel 29:1

Now the Philistines brought all their forces together at Aphek, while Israel camped by the spring in Jezreel.

1 Samuel 29:2

As the Philistine leaders marched out their units of hundreds and thousands, David and his men marched behind them with Achish.

1 Samuel 31:1

Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

1 Samuel 31:2

The Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

1 Samuel 31:3

When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him critically.

1 Samuel 31:4

Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run it through me, or these uncircumcised men will come and run me through and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

1 Samuel 31:5

When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his own sword and died with him.

1 Samuel 31:6

So Saul, his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men died together that same day.

1 Samuel 31:7

When the Israelites along the valley and those on the other side of the Jordan saw that the army of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their cities and ran away. So the Philistines came and occupied their cities.

1 Samuel 31:8

The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

1 Samuel 31:9

They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among their people.

1 Samuel 31:10

They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.

1 Samuel 31:11

When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

1 Samuel 31:12

all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.

1 Samuel 31:13

Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

1 Chronicles 10:8

The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

1 Samuel 28:4

The Philistines came together and camped at Shunem, while Saul gathered all Israel and camped at Gilboa.

2 Samuel 1:6

“I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” he replied, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and the cavalry closing in on him.

2 Samuel 1:21

O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.

2 Samuel 21:12

he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.