Bible: 1 Chron 10  Saul’s Death  10:1 Now the Philistines fought
against Israel. The Israelites fled before the Philistines and
many of them fell dead on Mount Gilboa. 10:2 The Philistines
stayed right on the heels of 1  Saul and his sons. They 2 
struck down Saul’s 3  sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua.
10:3 The battle was thick 4  around Saul; the archers spotted
him and wounded him. 5  10:4 Saul told his armor bearer, “Draw
your sword and stab me with it. Otherwise these uncircumcised
people will come and torture me.” 6  But his armor bearer
refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took the
sword and fell on it. 10:5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul
was dead, he also fell on his sword and died. 10:6 So Saul and
his three sons died; his whole household 7  died together. 10:7
When all the Israelites who were in the valley saw that the army
8  had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned
their cities and fled. The Philistines came and occupied them.
10:8 The next day, wh