2 Samuel 1:6-21

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,

12and they mourned, wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, for the troops of Adonai and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

13Then David said to the young man who informed him, “Where are you from?” “I am a son of an Amalekite outsider,” he replied.

14Then David said to him, “How is it that you were not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy Adonai’s anointed one?”

15Then David called one of the young men and said, “Come and strike him down.” And he struck him down and he died.

16David said to him, “Your blood is on your own head, for your mouth testified against you saying, ‘I killed Adonai’s anointed.’”

17Then David chanted this lament over Saul and his son Jonathan,

18and ordered that the sons of Judah be taught the “Song of the Bow.” (Behold, it is written in the Book of Jashar):

19“Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

20Tell it not in Gath, proclaim it not in Ashkelon’s streets, lest Philistine daughters rejoice, lest daughters of the uncircumcised gloat!

21Hills of Gilboa, let no dew or rain be on you, nor on bountiful fields, for there the shield of the mighty ones lay defiled—Saul’s shield will no longer be anointed with oil.