| New Living Translation | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1Now the Philistines attacked Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them. Many were slaughtered on the slopes of Mount Gilboa. | 1Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa. |
| 2The Philistines closed in on Saul and his sons, and they killed three of his sons—Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malkishua. | 2The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua the sons of Saul. |
| 3The fighting grew very fierce around Saul, and the Philistine archers caught up with him and wounded him severely. | 3The battle went heavily against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was badly wounded by the archers. |
| 4Saul groaned to his armor bearer, “Take your sword and kill me before these pagan Philistines come to run me through and taunt and torture me.” But his armor bearer was afraid and would not do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it. | 4Then Saul said to his armor bearer, "Draw your sword and pierce me through with it, otherwise these uncircumcised will come and pierce me through and make sport of me." But his armor bearer would not, for he was greatly afraid. So Saul took his sword and fell on it. |
| 5When his armor bearer realized that Saul was dead, he fell on his own sword and died beside the king. | 5When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died with him. |
| 6So Saul, his three sons, his armor bearer, and his troops all died together that same day. | 6Thus Saul died with his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men on that day together. |
| 7When the Israelites on the other side of the Jezreel Valley and beyond the Jordan saw that the Israelite army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their towns and fled. So the Philistines moved in and occupied their towns. | 7When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, with those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; then the Philistines came and lived in them. |
| 8The next day, when the Philistines went out to strip the dead, they found the bodies of Saul and his three sons on Mount Gilboa. | 8It came about on the next day when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. |
| 9So they cut off Saul’s head and stripped off his armor. Then they proclaimed the good news of Saul’s death in their pagan temple and to the people throughout the land of Philistia. | 9They cut off his head and stripped off his weapons, and sent them throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to the house of their idols and to the people. |
| 10They placed his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths, and they fastened his body to the wall of the city of Beth-shan. | 10They put his weapons in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. |
| 11But when the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, | 11Now when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, |
| 12all their mighty warriors traveled through the night to Beth-shan and took the bodies of Saul and his sons down from the wall. They brought them to Jabesh, where they burned the bodies. | 12all the valiant men rose and walked all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there. |
| 13Then they took their bones and buried them beneath the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days. | 13They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days. |
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