1Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.stylus1 Chronicles 10:1, 1 Chronicles 10:12, 1 Chronicles 10:1, 1 Chronicles 10:12, 1 Samuel 28:42The Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.stylus1 Chronicles 8:33, 1 Chronicles 8:33, 1 Samuel 14:49, 1 Samuel 14:49, 1 Chronicles 9:393When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him critically.stylus2 Samuel 1:6, 2 Samuel 1:6, Amos 2:14, 1 Kings 22:34, Genesis 49:234Then 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.stylus2 Samuel 1:9, 2 Samuel 1:10, Judges 9:54, 2 Samuel 1:6, 2 Samuel 1:205When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his own sword and died with him.stylus1 Chronicles 10:5, 1 Chronicles 10:56So Saul, his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men died together that same day.stylus1 Samuel 12:25, 1 Chronicles 10:6, 1 Samuel 12:17, 1 Samuel 28:19, 1 Samuel 11:157When 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.stylus1 Samuel 13:6, Leviticus 26:36, Leviticus 26:32, Judges 6:2, Deuteronomy 28:338The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.stylus1 Chronicles 10:8, 2 Chronicles 20:25, 1 Chronicles 10:8, 2 Chronicles 20:259They 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.stylus2 Samuel 1:20, 2 Samuel 1:20, Judges 16:23, Judges 16:24, Judges 16:2310They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.stylusJoshua 17:11, Judges 2:13, Joshua 17:11, Judges 2:13, 1 Samuel 21:911When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,stylus2 Samuel 2:4, 1 Samuel 11:1, 1 Samuel 11:11, 2 Samuel 2:4, 1 Samuel 11:112all 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.stylus2 Chronicles 16:14, 2 Chronicles 16:14, Jeremiah 34:5, Jeremiah 34:5, Amos 6:1013Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.stylusGenesis 50:10, 2 Samuel 21:12, 2 Samuel 21:14, Genesis 50:10, 2 Samuel 21:12