1╙┴ 31:1 ╬OW THE ╨HILISTINES FOUGHT AGAINST ╔SRAEL: AND THE MEN OF ╔SRAEL FLED FROM BEFORE THE ╨HILISTINES, AND FELL DOWN SLAIN IN MOUNT ╟ILBOA.
1╙┴ 31:2 ┴ND THE ╨HILISTINES FOLLOWED HARD UPON ╙AUL AND UPON HIS SONS; AND THE ╨HILISTINES SLEW ╩ONATHAN, AND ┴BINADAB, AND ═ELCHISHUA, ╙AUL'S SONS.
1╙┴ 31:3 ┴ND THE BATTLE WENT SORE AGAINST ╙AUL, AND THE ARCHERS HIT HIM; AND HE WAS SORE WOUNDED OF THE ARCHERS.
1╙┴ 31:4 ╘HEN SAID ╙AUL UNTO HIS ARMOURBEARER, ─RAW THY SWORD, AND THRUST ME THROUGH THEREWITH; LEST THESE UNCIRCUMCISED COME AND THRUST ME THROUGH, AND ABUSE ME. ┬UT HIS ARMOURBEARER WOULD NOT; FOR HE WAS SORE AFRAID. ╘HEREFORE ╙AUL TOOK A SWORD, AND FELL UPON IT.
1╙┴ 31:5 ┴ND WHEN HIS ARMOURBEARER SAW THAT ╙AUL WAS DEAD, HE FELL LIKEWISE UPON HIS SWORD, AND DIED WITH HIM.
1╙┴ 31:6 ╙O ╙AUL DIED, AND HIS THREE SONS, AND HIS ARMOURBEARER, AND ALL HIS MEN, THAT SAME DAY TOGETHER.
1╙┴ 31:7 ┴ND WHEN THE MEN OF ╔SRAEL THAT WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE VALLEY, AND THEY THAT WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE ╩ORDAN, SAW THAT THE MEN OF ╔SRAEL FLED, AND THAT ╙AUL AND HIS SONS WERE DEAD, THEY FORSOOK THE CITIES, AND FLED; AND THE ╨HILISTINES CAME AND DWELT IN THEM.
1╙┴ 31:8 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE MORROW, WHEN THE ╨HILISTINES CAME TO STRIP THE SLAIN, THAT THEY FOUND ╙AUL AND HIS THREE SONS FALLEN IN MOUNT ╟ILBOA.
1╙┴ 31:9 ┴ND THEY CUT OFF HIS HEAD, AND STRIPPED OFF HIS ARMOUR, AND SENT INTO THE LAND OF THE ╨HILISTINES ROUND ABOUT, TO PUBLISH IT IN THE HOUSE OF THEIR IDOLS, AND AMONG THE PEOPLE.
1╙┴ 31:10 ┴ND THEY PUT HIS ARMOUR IN THE HOUSE OF ┴SHTAROTH: AND THEY FASTENED HIS BODY TO THE WALL OF ┬ETHSHAN.
1╙┴ 31:11 ┴ND WHEN THE INHABITANTS OF ╩ABESHGILEAD HEARD OF THAT WHICH THE ╨HILISTINES HAD DONE TO ╙AUL;
1╙┴ 31:12 ┴LL THE VALIANT MEN AROSE, AND WENT ALL NIGHT, AND TOOK THE BODY OF ╙AUL AND THE BODIES OF HIS SONS FROM THE WALL OF ┬ETHSHAN, AND CAME TO ╩ABESH, AND BURNT THEM THERE.
1╙┴ 31:13 ┴ND THEY TOOK THEIR BONES, AND BURIED THEM UNDER A TREE AT ╩ABESH, AND FASTED SEVEN DAYS.
