2 Samuel 1:2-11

2On the third day, behold, a man came from Saul’s camp, with his clothes torn and dust on his head. Now when he approached David, he fell to the ground and prostrated himself.

3Then David asked him, “Where are you coming from?” “I’ve escaped from the camp of Israel,” he answered.

4“How did things go?” David asked him. “Please, tell me.” He answered, “The troops fled the battlefield—also many of the troops fell and died. And even Saul and his son Jonathan are dead.”

5David asked the young man informing him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”

6The young man informing him answered, “I happened by chance to be on Mount Gilboa, and look, Saul was leaning on his spear, while the chariots and the horsemen were closing in on him.

7When he turned around and saw me, he called me. So I answered, ‘Here I am.’

8Then he asked me, ‘Who are you?’ “So I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’

9So he said to me, ‘Stand now over me and kill me! For I’m in agony, yet I’m still alive.’

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

11Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so did all the men that were with him,