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David continued questioning him, “How did things go? Please tell me!”

He replied, “The army has fled the battlefield, many of the army are wounded[a] or have died, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.”

David asked the young man who related the story,[b] “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”

The young man who had been relating the story[c] answered, “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa and there was Saul, leaning on his spear! Meanwhile, the chariots and horsemen were rapidly drawing near.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 1:4 Lit. fallen
  2. 2 Samuel 1:5 The Heb. lacks the story
  3. 2 Samuel 1:6 The Heb. lacks the story