and abuse me . But his armour-bearer would not, for he was sore afraid: therefore Saul took a sword and fell upon it .
5 And when his armour-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.
6 So Saul died with his three sons, and his armour∣bearer, and all his men that same day together.
7 ¶ And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley , and they that were on the other side Jordan , saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities and fled, and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
9 And they cut off his head , and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols , and among the people.
10 And they put his armour in the house of Ash∣taroth: and they fastned his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
11 ¶ And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul:
12 All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons from the walls of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there .
13 And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days .