1 Chronicles 10
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1 Chronicles 10:4-10

4Saul told his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and stab me with it. Otherwise these uncircumcised people will come and torture me.” But his armor bearer refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

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

6So Saul and his three sons died; his whole household died together.

7When all the Israelites who were in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. The Philistines came and occupied them.

8The next day, when the Philistines came to strip loot from the corpses, they discovered Saul and his sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa.

9They stripped his corpse, and then carried off his head and his armor. They sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines proclaiming the news to their idols and their people.

10They placed his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.

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