Saul Takes His Life
1Now the Philistines fought against Israel; the Israelites fled before them, and many fell dead on Mount Gilboa. 2The Philistines were in hot pursuit of Saul and his sons, and they killed his sons Jonathan, Abinadab and Malki-Shua. 3The fighting grew fierce around Saul, and when the archers overtook him, they wounded him.
4Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through, or these uncircumcised fellows will come and abuse me.”
But his armor-bearer was terrified and would not do it; so Saul took his own sword and fell on it. 5When the armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his sword and died. 6So Saul and his three sons died, and all his house died together.
7When all the Israelites in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their towns and fled. And the Philistines came and occupied them.
8The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. 9They stripped him and took his head and his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news among their idols and their people. 10They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung up his head in the temple of Dagon.
11When all the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, 12all their valiant men went and took the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. Then they buried their bones under the great tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.
13Saul died because he was unfaithful to the Lord; he did not keep the word of the Lord and even consulted a medium for guidance, 14and did not inquire of the Lord. So the Lord put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David 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。
