2 Samuel 1:6-21

6“I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” he replied, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear. At that very moment the chariots and the cavalry were closing in on him.

7When he turned around and saw me, he called out to me, so I answered: I’m at your service.

8He asked me, ‘Who are you? ’ I told him: I’m an Amalekite.

9Then he begged me, ‘Stand over me and kill me, for I’m mortally wounded, but my life still lingers.’

10So I stood over him and killed him because I knew that after he had fallen he couldn’t survive. I took the crown that was on his head and the armband that was on his arm, and I’ve brought them here to my lord.”

11Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and all the men with him did the same.

12They mourned, wept, and fasted until the evening for those who died by the sword — for Saul, his son Jonathan, the Lord’s people, and the house of Israel.

13David inquired of the young man who had brought him the report, “Where are you from?” “I’m the son of a resident alien,” he said. “I’m an Amalekite.”

14David questioned him, “How is it that you were not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the Lord’s anointed?”

15Then David summoned one of his servants and said, “Come here and kill him!” The servant struck him, and he died.

16For David had said to the Amalekite, “Your blood is on your own head because your own mouth testified against you by saying, ‘I killed the Lord’s anointed.’”

17David sang the following lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

18and he ordered that the Judahites be taught The Song of the Bow. It is written in the Book of Jashar:

19The splendor of Israel lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!

20Do not tell it in Gath, don’t announce it in the marketplaces of Ashkelon, or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised will celebrate.

21Mountains of Gilboa, let no dew or rain be on you, or fields of offerings, for there the shield of the mighty was defiled  — the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.