1Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.

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1 Chronicles 10:1, 1 Chronicles 10:12, 1 Chronicles 10:1, 1 Chronicles 10:12, 1 Samuel 28:4

2The Philistines followed hard on Saul and on his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

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1 Chronicles 8:33, 1 Chronicles 8:33, 1 Samuel 14:49, 1 Samuel 14:49, 1 Chronicles 9:39

3The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.

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2 Samuel 1:6, 2 Samuel 1:6, Amos 2:14, 1 Kings 22:34, Genesis 49:23

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.

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2 Samuel 1:9, 2 Samuel 1:10, Judges 9:54, 2 Samuel 1:6, 2 Samuel 1:20

5When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.

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1 Chronicles 10:5, 1 Chronicles 10:5

6So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.

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1 Samuel 12:25, 1 Chronicles 10:6, 1 Samuel 12:17, 1 Samuel 28:19, 1 Samuel 11:15

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 forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.

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1 Samuel 13:6, Leviticus 26:36, Leviticus 26:32, Judges 6:2, Deuteronomy 28:33

8It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

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1 Chronicles 10:8, 2 Chronicles 20:25, 1 Chronicles 10:8, 2 Chronicles 20:25

9They cut off his head, and 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.

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2 Samuel 1:20, 2 Samuel 1:20, Judges 16:23, Judges 16:24, Judges 16:23

10They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.

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Joshua 17:11, Judges 2:13, Joshua 17:11, Judges 2:13, 1 Samuel 21:9

11When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard concerning him that which the Philistines had done to Saul,

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2 Samuel 2:4, 1 Samuel 11:1, 1 Samuel 11:11, 2 Samuel 2:4, 1 Samuel 11:1

12all the valiant men arose, and 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 burnt them there.

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2 Chronicles 16:14, 2 Chronicles 16:14, Jeremiah 34:5, Jeremiah 34:5, Amos 6:10

13They took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

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Genesis 50:10, 2 Samuel 21:12, 2 Samuel 21:14, Genesis 50:10, 2 Samuel 21:12