2 Samuel 1:4-10 ▼

4 “What happened?” David said. “Tell me.” He answered that the soldiers had fled the battle and many of them had fallen and were dead; and that Saul and his son Jonathan were dead.

5 Then David said to the youth who was reporting to him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”

6 The youth reporting to him replied: “I happened to find myself on Mount Gilboa and saw Saul leaning on his spear, with chariots and horsemen closing in on him.

7 He turned around and saw me, and called me to him. When I said, ‘Here I am,’

8 he asked me, ‘Who are you?’ and I replied, ‘An Amalekite.’

9 Then he said to me, ‘Stand over me, please, and put me to death, for I am in great suffering, but still alive.’

10 So I stood over him and put him to death, for I knew that he could not survive his wound. I removed the crown from his head and the armlet from his arm and brought them here to my lord.”