Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa. 1Ch 10:81Sa 31:1-131Sa 28:42Sa 1:212Sa 1:61Sa 28:11Sa 29:1-22Sa 21:12 The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul. 1Ch 9:39Isa 57:1-21Ch 8:331Sa 14:39-401Sa 14:491Sa 14:62Ki 23:292Ki 25:7 The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers. 1Sa 31:3-62Sa 1:4-10Amo 2:14Gen 49:23-24 Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me.” 1Sa 31:4Act 1:181Ch 10:51Ki 16:181Sa 14:61Sa 17:261Sa 17:362Sa 1:14-16
But his armor bearer would not, for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell on it. When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword and died. So Saul died with his three sons; and all his house died together. 1Sa 12:25Ecc 9:1-2Hos 13:10-111Sa 4:10-111Sa 4:18 When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them. 1Sa 13:61Sa 31:7Deu 28:33Deu 28:43Jdg 6:2Lev 26:31Lev 26:36
On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. 1Sa 31:82Ch 20:252Ki 3:23 They stripped him and took his head and his armor, then sent into the land of the Philistines all around to carry the news to their idols and to the people. 1Sa 31:9-102Sa 1:201Ch 10:4Dan 5:2-4Dan 5:23Jdg 16:23-24Mat 14:11 They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon. 1Sa 31:101Sa 5:2-7 When all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul, 2Sa 2:4-71Sa 11:1-111Sa 31:11-13 all the valiant men arose and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. 2Sa 21:12-142Sa 3:35Gen 35:8Gen 50:10
So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the LORD, because of the LORD’s word, which he didn’t keep, and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire, Lev 20:6Lev 19:311Sa 15:23Isa 8:191Sa 28:7-20Deu 18:10-141Sa 15:2Exo 22:18 and didn’t inquire of the LORD. Therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse. 1Sa 15:281Sa 13:141Sa 16:11Sa 28:171Ch 12:231Sa 28:62Sa 3:9-10Jdg 10:11-16