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2 Samuel - ch 1 v 1 - 20
- It happened after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;
- it happened on the third day, that behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.
- David said to him, From whence come you? He said to him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.
- David said to him, How went the matter? Please tell me. He answered, The people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.
- David said to the young man who told him, How know you that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?
- The young man who told him said, As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him.
- When he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. I answered, Here am I.
- He said to me, Who are you? I answered him, I am an Amalekite.
- He said to me, Stand, I pray you, beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.
- So I stood beside him, and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was on his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord.
- Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and likewise all the men who were with him:
- and they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
- David said to the young man who told him, Whence are you? He answered, I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite.
- David said to him, How were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed?
- David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall on him. He struck him, so that he died.
- David said to him, Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have slain Yahweh's anointed.
- David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son
- (and he bade them teach the children of Judah the song of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):
- Your glory, Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
- Don't tell it in Gath. Don't publish it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
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