1 Samuel 31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

1 Samuel 31The Death of Saul and His Sons

1 on Mount Gilboa.

2The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

3 and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

111 Sam 11.3, 9, 11But when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

122 Sam 2.4–7; 2 Chr 16.14all the valiant men set out, traveled all night long, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. They came to Jabesh and burned them there.

131 Sam 22.6; 2 Sam 1.12; 21.12–14Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and fasted seven days.