Гибель Шаула и его сыновей
(1 Лет. 10:1-12)
1Филистимляне воевали с Исроилом, и исроильтяне бежали от них и падали сражёнными на горе Гильбоа. 2Филистимляне нагнали Шаула и его сыновей и убили Ионафана, Авинадава и Малик-Шуа. 3Вокруг Шаула разгорелась жестокая битва. Лучники нашли его и тяжело ранили.
4Шаул сказал своему оруженосцу:
– Обнажи свой меч и заколи меня, иначе эти необрезанные придут, заколют меня и станут глумиться надо мной.
Но оруженосец не решился сделать это, потому что очень испугался. Тогда Шаул взял свой собственный меч и бросился на него. 5Когда оруженосец увидел, что Шаул мёртв, он тоже бросился на свой меч и умер вместе с ним. 6Так Шаул, три его сына, оруженосец и все его люди погибли в тот день.
7Увидев, что исроильское войско разбежалось, а Шаул и его сыновья погибли, исроильтяне, которые жили на другой стороне долины и за Иорданом, оставили свои города и тоже бежали. А филистимляне пришли и заняли их.
8На следующий день, когда филистимляне пришли грабить мёртвых, они нашли Шаула и трёх его сыновей, павших на горе Гильбоа. 9Они отсекли ему голову, сняли с него оружие и послали вестников по всей филистимской земле, чтобы возвестить об этом в капище своих идолов и народу. 10Они положили его оружие в храме Астарты и повесили его тело на стене Бет-Шеана.
11Когда жители Иавеша Галаадского услышали о том, что филистимляне сделали с Шаулом, 12то все их храбрые воины отправились в путь, шли всю ночь и, придя в Бет-Шеан, сняли тела Шаула и его сыновей со стены. Они пришли в Иавеш и сожгли их там. 13Потом они взяли их кости, похоронили под тамариском в Иавеше и постились семь дней.
Saul Takes His Own Life
1The Philistines fought against the Israelites. The Israelites ran away from them. But many Israelites were killed on Mount Gilboa. 2The Philistines kept chasing Saul and his sons. They killed his sons Jonathan, Abinadab and Malki-Shua. 3The fighting was heavy around Saul. Men who were armed with bows and arrows caught up with him. They shot their arrows at him and wounded him badly.
4Saul spoke to the man carrying his armor. He said, “Pull out your sword. Stick it through me. If you don’t, these fellows who aren’t circumcised will come. They’ll stick their swords through me and hurt me badly.”
But the man was terrified. He wouldn’t do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it. 5The man saw that Saul was dead. So he fell on his own sword and died with him. 6Saul and his three sons died together that same day. The man who carried his armor also died with them that day. So did all of Saul’s men.
7The Israelites who lived along the valley saw that their army had run away. So did those who lived across the Jordan River. They saw that Saul and his sons were dead. So they left their towns and ran away. Then the Philistines came and made their homes in them.
8The day after the Philistines had won the battle, they came to take what they wanted from the dead bodies. They found Saul and his three sons dead on Mount Gilboa. 9So they cut off Saul’s head. They took his armor from his body. Then they sent messengers through the whole land of the Philistines. They announced the news in the temple where they had set up statues of their gods. They also announced it among their people. 10They put Saul’s armor in the temple where they had set up statues of female gods that were named Ashtoreth. They hung his body up on the wall of Beth Shan.
11The people of Jabesh Gilead heard about what the Philistines had done to Saul. 12So all their brave men marched through the night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan. They brought them to Jabesh. There they burned them. 13Then they got the bones of Saul and his sons and buried them under a tamarisk tree at Jabesh. They didn’t eat anything for seven days.
