2 Samuel 1:5-10 ▼

5 And David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?”

6 And the young man who told him said, “I happened to meet on Mount Gilboa, and there was Saul leaning on his spear. And behold, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.

7 And he looked behind him, and he saw me and called to me, and I answered, ‘Behold.’

8 And he said to me, ‘Who are you?’ And I said to him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’

9 And he said to me, ‘Stand, please, over me and kill me, for the anguish has seized me, but all my life is in me still.’

10 And I stood over him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. And I took the diadem that was on his head and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them to my lord here.”