2 Samuel 1:6-21

6The man answered, “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and there was Saul leaning on his spear with the enemy chariots and charioteers closing in on him.

7When he turned and saw me, he cried out for me to come to him. ‘How can I help?’ I asked him.

8“He responded, ‘Who are you?’ “‘I am an Amalekite,’ I told him.

9“Then he begged me, ‘Come over here and put me out of my misery, for I am in terrible pain and want to die.’

10“So I killed him,” the Amalekite told David, “for I knew he couldn’t live. Then I took his crown and his armband, and I have brought them here to you, my lord.”

11David and his men tore their clothes in sorrow when they heard the news.

12They mourned and wept and fasted all day for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the Lord’s army and the nation of Israel, because they had died by the sword that day.

13Then David said to the young man who had brought the news, “Where are you from?” And he replied, “I am a foreigner, an Amalekite, who lives in your land.”

14“Why were you not afraid to kill the Lord’s anointed one?” David asked.

15Then David said to one of his men, “Kill him!” So the man thrust his sword into the Amalekite and killed him.

16“You have condemned yourself,” David said, “for you yourself confessed that you killed the Lord’s anointed one.”

17Then David composed a funeral song for Saul and Jonathan,

18and he commanded that it be taught to the people of Judah. It is known as the Song of the Bow, and it is recorded in The Book of Jashar.

19Your pride and joy, O Israel, lies dead on the hills! Oh, how the mighty heroes have fallen!

20Don’t announce the news in Gath, don’t proclaim it in the streets of Ashkelon, or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice and the pagans will laugh in triumph.

21O mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you, nor fruitful fields producing offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty heroes was defiled; the shield of Saul will no longer be anointed with oil.