1 Samuel 31 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Saul and His Sons Slain

(1Ch 10:1–14 )

1Sa 31:1And the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on mount Gilboa.

1Sa 31:2

1Sa 31:2And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines smote Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons.

1Sa 31:3

1Sa 31:3And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers came up with him; and he was much terrified by the archers.

1Sa 31:4

1Sa 31:4Then said Saul to his armour-bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through with it; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armour-bearer would not; for he was much afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

1Sa 31:5

1Sa 31:5And when his armour-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on his sword, and died with him.

1Sa 31:6

1Sa 31:6So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armour-bearer, and all his men, that same day together.

1Sa 31:7

1Sa 31:7And when the men of Israel that were on this side of the valley, and they that were on this side of the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

1Sa 31:8

1Sa 31:8And it came to pass the next day, that the Philistines came to strip the slain, and they found Saul and his three sons fallen on mount Gilboa.

1Sa 31:9

1Sa 31:9And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent them into the land of the Philistines round about, to announce the glad tidings in the houses of their idols, and to the people.

1Sa 31:10

1Sa 31:10And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

1Sa 31:11

1Sa 31:11And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead heard of what the Philistines had done to Saul,

1Sa 31:12

1Sa 31:12all the valiant men arose and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burned them there.

1Sa 31:13

1Sa 31:13And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

1 Samuel 31 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Saul and His Sons Slain

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