^{4 Ref} David said to him, How went the matter? Please tell me. He answered, The people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.

^{5 Ref} David said to the young man who told him, How know you that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?

^{6 Ref} The young man who told him said, As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and, behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him.

^{7 Ref} When he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. I answered, Here am I.

^{8 Ref} He said to me, Who are you? I answered him, I am an Amalekite.

⁹ He said to me, Stand, I pray you, beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.

^{10 Ref} So I stood beside him, and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was on his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord.