2 Samuel 1:5-10

New Catholic Bible

⁵ David then asked the young man who had brought the news: “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” ⁶ The young man replied: “By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and I beheld Saul leaning on his spear as the chariots and the horsemen were closing in on him. ⁷ When he happened to turn around and saw me, he summoned me to him. I said: ‘Here I am.’ ⁸ Saul then said to me: ‘Who are you?’ And I told him: ‘I am an Amalekite.’ ⁹ Then he gave me this order: ‘Come here, stand over me, and kill me. The throes of death have overcome me, yet I am still alive.’

¹⁰ “Therefore, I stood over him and slew him, for I knew that he could not possibly survive because of the wounds he had suffered. Then I removed the crown that was on his head and the armlet from his arm, and I have brought them here to you, my lord.”