Verse 1

The Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

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  • 1 Sam 31:1-9 : 1 The Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them. Many fell slain on Mount Gilboa. 2 The Philistines closely pursued Saul and his sons, and they killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua, Saul's sons. 3 The battle grew fierce against Saul. The archers found him, and he was badly wounded by them. 4 Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, 'Draw your sword and pierce me with it, or these uncircumcised men will come and abuse me.' But his armor-bearer was too afraid and refused. So Saul took his sword and fell on it. 5 When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died with him. 6 So Saul, his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men died together that same day. 7 When the Israelites on the other side of the valley and the Jordan saw that Israel's army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. Then the Philistines came and occupied them. 8 The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. 9 They cut off Saul's head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among the people. 10 They put his armor in the temple of Ashtaroth and hung his corpse on the wall of Beth-shan. 11 When the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, 12 all their valiant men rose up, traveled through the night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. They brought them to Jabesh and burned them there. 13 Then they took their bones, buried them under a tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
  • 1 Chr 10:8 : 8 The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa.
  • 1 Sam 28:1 : 1 In those days, the Philistines gathered their armies to wage war against Israel, and Achish said to David, "You surely know that you and your men will go out with me in the army."
  • 1 Sam 28:4 : 4 The Philistines gathered and camped at Shunem, while Saul assembled all Israel, and they camped at Gilboa.
  • 1 Sam 29:1-2 : 1 The Philistines gathered all their armies at Aphek, while Israel camped by the spring in Jezreel. 2 The Philistine rulers marched with their units of hundreds and thousands, and David and his men were marching at the rear with Achish.
  • 2 Sam 1:6 : 6 The young man who was reporting the news said, 'I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and I saw Saul leaning on his spear, while the chariots and horsemen were closing in on him.'
  • 2 Sam 1:21 : 21 O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, nor fields of offerings! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled—the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
  • 2 Sam 21:12 : 12 he went and retrieved the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead. (They had stolen their bodies from the public square of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hung them after they struck Saul down on Gilboa.)