The Death of Saul and His Sons
(1 Chronicles 10.1-12)1 The Philistines fought a battle against the Israelites on Mount Gilboa. Many Israelites were killed there, and the rest of them, including King Saul and his sons, fled. 2 But the Philistines caught up with them and killed three of Saul's sons, Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua. 3 The fighting was heavy around Saul, and he himself was hit by enemy arrows and badly wounded. 4 He said to the young man carrying his weapons, “Draw your sword and kill me, so that these godless Philistines won't gloat over me and kill me.” But the young man was too terrified to do it. So Saul took his own sword and threw himself on it. 5 The young man saw that Saul was dead, so he too threw himself on his own sword and died with Saul. 6 And that is how Saul, his three sons, and the young man died; all of Saul's men died that day. 7 When the Israelites on the other side of Jezreel Valley and east of the Jordan River heard that the Israelite army had fled and that Saul and his sons had been killed, they abandoned their towns and fled. Then the Philistines came and occupied the towns.
8 The day after the battle the Philistines went to plunder the corpses, and they found the bodies of Saul and his three sons lying on Mount Gilboa. 9 They cut off Saul's head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers with them throughout Philistia to tell the good news to their idols and to their people. 10 Then they put his weapons in the temple of the goddess Astarte, and they nailed his body to the wall of the city of Beth Shan.
11 When the people of Jabesh in Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, 12 the bravest men started out and marched all night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall, brought them back to Jabesh, and burned them there. 13 Then they took the bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in town, and fasted for seven days.
1 Un tolaik filistieši kajoja ar Israēlu, bet Israēla vīri bēga no filistiešiem un krita nokauti Gilboas kalnājos.
2 Un filistieši uzvarēja Sauļu un viņa dēlus, un filistieši nokāva Jonatānu, Abinadabu un Malchišu, Saula dēlus.
3 Kad kauja iedegās ap pašu Sauļu un strēlnieki, to pazinuši, vērsa savus stopus tieši pret viņu, tad viņš tika smagi ievainots.
4 Un Sauls pavēlēja savam ieroču nesējam: „Izvelc savu zobenu no maksts un nodur ar to mani, iekāms šie neapgraizītie nāk un mani nodup, lai tie neliek mani apsmieklā!“ Bet viņa ieroču nesējs kautrējās to darīt, jo viņš loti bijās. Tad Sauls ņēma zobenu un metās tam virsū.
5 Kad nu viņa ieroču nesējs redzēja, ka Sauls bija miris, tad ari tas metās uz savu zobenu un nomira līdz ar viņu.
6 Un tā krita tanī pašā dienā ir Sauls, ir viņa trīs dēli, ir viņa ieroču nesējs un visi viņa viri.
7 Kad nu Israēla viri, kas dzīvoja Jezreēlas līdzenuma pilsētās un pilsētās pie Jardānas, redzēja, ka Israēla viri metās bēgt, un ka Sauls ar saviem dēliem bija kritis, tad tie pameta savas pilsētas un bēga; tad tajās ienāca filistieši un apmetās tur uz dzīvi.
8 Kad nu nākamajā dienā nāca fīlistieši, lai kritušos aplaupītu, un tie atrada Sauļu un viņa trīs dēlus, kas visi bija krituši Gilboas kalnājā,
9 Tad tie viņam nocirta galvu, novilka viņam bruņas līdz ar ieročiem, un tie sūtīja uzvaras vēsti visapkārt pa visu savu zemi, pasludinādami to savu elku dievnamos un visai tautai.
10 Un tie novietoja viņa ieročus Aštartes templi, bet viņa līķi tie pakala pie mūra Bet-Šeanā.
11 Kad nu Jabešas iedzīvotāji Gileādā dzirdēja, ko filistieši bija Saulam izdarījuši,
12 Tad cēlās visi spēcīgie viri, gāja visu nakti, noņēma Saula līķi un ari viņa dēlu līķus no Bet-Šeanas mūra un griezās ar tiem atpakaļ uz Jabešu, kur viņi tos sadedzināja.
13 Un viņi ņēma viņu kaulus un apraka tos Jabešā zem tamariskas un gavēja septiņas dienas.
