Saul Takes His Own Life
1The Philistines fought against Israel. The men of Israel 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 armed with bows and arrows caught up with him. They shot their arrows at him and wounded him badly.
4Saul spoke to the man who was carrying his armor. He said, “Pull out your sword and stick it through me. If you don’t, these men who aren’t circumcised will come 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. 6Saul and his three sons died. All of them died together.
7All the Israelites who lived in the valley saw that their army had run away. They saw that Saul and his sons were dead. So the Israelites left their towns and ran away. Then the Philistines came and lived 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 sons dead on Mount Gilboa. 9So they took what they wanted from Saul’s body. They cut off his head and took his armor. Then they sent messengers through the whole land of the Philistines. They announced the news to the statues of their gods. They also announced it among their people. 10They put Saul’s armor in the temple of their gods. They hung up his head in the temple of their god Dagon.
11The people of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul. 12So all the brave men of Jabesh Gilead went and got the bodies of Saul and his sons. They brought them to Jabesh. Then they buried the bones of Saul and his sons under the great tree that was there. They didn’t eat anything for seven days.
13Saul died because he wasn’t faithful to the Lord. He didn’t obey the word of the Lord. He even asked for advice from a person who gets messages from people who have died. 14He didn’t ask the Lord for advice. So the Lord put him to death. He turned the kingdom over to David. David was the son of Jesse.
扫罗之死
1非利士人与以色列人交战，以色列人败逃，许多人在基利波山被杀。 2非利士人穷追扫罗及其众子，杀了扫罗的儿子约拿单、亚比拿达和麦基舒亚。 3扫罗周围的战斗非常猛烈，他被弓箭手发现、射成重伤， 4就对为他拿兵器的人说：“拔出你的刀来刺死我吧！免得那些未受割礼的人来凌辱我。”但拿兵器的人非常害怕，不敢动手，扫罗就自己伏刀自尽。 5拿兵器的人看见扫罗已死，也伏刀自尽了。 6这样，扫罗和他的三个儿子及全家都死了。 7住在山谷中的以色列人看见以色列军败逃、扫罗及其众子已死，都弃城而逃。于是，非利士人占领了那些城邑。 8次日，非利士人来剥阵亡者的衣物，发现扫罗及其众子横尸基利波山， 9就剥下扫罗的盔甲，割下他的头颅，并派人到非利士四境向他们的偶像和民众通告消息。 10他们将扫罗的盔甲放在他们的神庙里，把他的头颅挂在大衮神庙中。 11基列·雅比人听见非利士人对扫罗的所作所为， 12他们所有的勇士就去把扫罗和他儿子们的尸体运到雅比，葬在雅比的橡树下，并禁食七天。 13扫罗死了，因为他对耶和华不忠，不听从祂的教诲，甚至去求问灵媒， 14而不求问耶和华。因此，耶和华使他被杀，把王位交给了耶西的儿子大卫。
