2 Samuel 1:6-21

6“I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” the young man said, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and their drivers in hot pursuit.

7When he turned around and saw me, he called out to me, and I said, ‘What can I do?’

8“He asked me, ‘Who are you?’ “ ‘An Amalekite,’ I answered.

9“Then he said to me, ‘Stand here by me and kill me! I’m in the throes of death, but I’m still alive.’

10“So I stood beside him and killed him, because I knew that after he had fallen he could not survive. And I took the crown that was on his head and the band on his arm and have brought them here to my lord.”

11Then David and all the men with him took hold of their clothes and tore them.

12They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the Lord and for the nation of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

13David said to the young man who brought him the report, “Where are you from?” “I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite,” he answered.

14David asked him, “Why weren’t you afraid to lift your hand to destroy the Lord’s anointed?”

15Then David called one of his men and said, “Go, strike him down!” So he struck him down, and he died.

16For David had said to him, “Your blood be on your own head. Your own mouth testified against you when you said, ‘I killed the Lord’s anointed.’ ”

17David took up this lament concerning Saul and his son Jonathan,

18and he ordered that the people of Judah be taught this lament of the bow (it is written in the Book of Jashar):

19“A gazelle lies slain on your heights, Israel. How the mighty have fallen!

20“Tell it not in Gath, proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines be glad, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised rejoice.

21“Mountains of Gilboa, may you have neither dew nor rain, may no showers fall on your terraced fields. For there the shield of the mighty was despised, the shield of Saul—no longer rubbed with oil.