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.
掃羅之死
1非利士人與以色列人交戰，以色列人敗逃，許多人在基利波山被殺。 2非利士人窮追掃羅及其眾子，殺了掃羅的兒子約拿單、亞比拿達和麥基舒亞。 3掃羅周圍戰事激烈，他被弓箭手發現後射成重傷， 4就對為他拿兵器的人說：「拔出你的刀來刺死我吧！免得那些未受割禮的人來凌辱我。」但拿兵器的人非常害怕，不敢動手，掃羅就拿起刀來，伏刀自盡了。 5拿兵器的人看見掃羅已死，也伏刀自盡了。 6這樣，掃羅和他三個兒子及全家都死了。 7住在山谷中的以色列人見以色列軍敗逃、掃羅及其眾子已死，都棄城而逃。於是，非利士人佔據了那些城邑。 8次日，非利士人來剝陣亡者的衣物，發現掃羅及其眾子橫屍基利波山， 9就剝下掃羅的盔甲，割下他的頭顱，並派人去非利士全境向他們的偶像和民眾通告消息。 10他們把掃羅的盔甲放在他們的神廟裡，把他的頭顱掛在大袞神廟中。 11基列·雅比人聽見非利士人對掃羅的所作所為， 12他們所有的勇士就去把掃羅和他兒子們的屍體運到雅比，葬在雅比的橡樹下，並禁食七天。 13掃羅死了，因為他對耶和華不忠，不聽從祂的教誨，甚至去求問靈媒， 14而不求問耶和華。因此，耶和華使他被殺，把王位交給了耶西的兒子大衛。
