1 Chronicles 10

1 And the Philistines fought agaynst Israel. And the men of Israel fled before 'fee Philistines and were ouerthrowen & slayne in Mounte Gelboe. 2 And the Philistines folowed Saul and hys sonnes and slue Iehonathan, Abinadab and Melchisua the sonnes of Saul. 3 And the battell went sore agaynst Saul, in so moche that the shoters met hym, and he was wounded of the shoters. 4 Then sayde Saul to hys wepon bearer draw they swerde and thrust me thorowe therwyth, that these vncircumcised come not and do me shame. And his wepone bearer woulde not, but feared excedynglye. Wherupon Saul caught a swerde & fell vpon yt. 5 And when hys harnesbearer sawe 'fet Saul was deed, he fell on a swerde also and dyed. 6 And thus Saul and hys thre sonnes and all hys house dyed together. 7 And when all the men that dwelt in the valeyes, saw how they fled, & that Saul and his sonnes were dead they forsoke theyr cyties & ranne awaye, and the Philistines came and dwelt in them. 8 And on the morow when the Philistines came to stripe the dead bodyes, they founde Saul and hys sonnes ouerthrowen in mounte Gelboe. 9 And when they had stript hym they toke hys head and hys harnesse and sent them into 'fee lande of the Philistines round aboute to shew tydynges vnto theyr Gods & to the people. 10 And they put hys harnesse in the houses of theyr Gods. But hys skulle they hanged in the house of Dagon. 11 And when all they of Iabes in Galaad hearde all that the Philistines had done to Saul, 12 all the men of warre arose & fet awaye the bodye of, Saul and the bodyes of hys sonnes and brought them to Iabes and buryed the bones of them vnder an ocke in Iabes, and fasted seuen dayes. 13 And so Saul dyed for hys trespace that he trespaced agaynst the Lorde, in that he kept not the worde of the Lorde, and in that he asked councell of a woman that wrought with a sprite, 14 and asked not of the Lorde. And therfore the Lorde killed hym & turned the kyngdome vnto Dauid the sonne of Iesai.