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1 Samuel 31 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:1 - And the Philistines fought with Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and they fall down wounded in the mountain of Gelbue.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:2 - And the Philistines press closely on Saul and his sons, and the Philistines smite Jonathan, and Aminadab, and Melchisa son of Saul.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:3 - And the battle prevails against Saul, and the shooters with arrows, even the archers find him, and he was wounded [fn]under the ribs.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:4 - And Saul said to his armour-bearer, Draw thy sword and pierce me through with it; lest these uncircumcised come and pierce me through, and mock me. But his armour-bearer would not, for he feared greatly: so Saul took his sword and fell upon it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:5 - And his armour-bearer saw that Saul was dead, and he fell also himself upon his sword, and died with him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:6 - So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armour-bearer, in that day together.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:7 - And the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those beyond Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead; and they leave their cities and flee: and the Philistines come and dwell in them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:8 - And it came to pass on the morrow that the Philistines come to strip the dead, and they find Saul and his three sons fallen on the mountains of Gelbue.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:9 - And they [fn]turned him, and stripped off his armour, and sent it into the land of the Philistines, sending round glad tidings to their idols and to the people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:10 - And they set up his armour at the temple of Astarte, and they fastened his body on the wall of Bæthsam.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:11 - And the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad hear what the Philistines did to Saul.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:12 - And they rose up, even every man of might, and marched all night, and took the body of Saul and the body of Jonathan his son from the wall of Bæthsam; and they bring them to Jabis, and burn them there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:13 - And they take their bones, and bury them in the field that is in Jabis, and fast seven days.
BES Footnotes
Lit. in the hypochondria.
Comp. reads, ἀποκεφαλίζουσιν. so in Heb.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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