NSB(i)
1 When the Philistines fought Israel, the men of Israel fled from the Philistines and were killed in battle on Mount Gilboa.
2 The Philistines caught up to Saul and his sons. They killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul’s sons.
3 The heaviest fighting was against Saul. When the archers got him in their range, he was badly wounded by them.
4 He said to the young man carrying his weapons: »Draw your sword and kill me. That way these godless Philistines will not 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. Then he too threw himself on his own sword and died with Saul.
6 That is how Saul, his three sons, and the young man died. All of Saul’s men died that day.