2 Samuel 1:5-10 ▼

5 David asked the young man who had brought him the report, “How do you know Saul and his son Jonathan are dead? ”

6 “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” he replied, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear. At that very moment the chariots and the cavalry were closing in on him.

7 When he turned around and saw me, he called out to me, so I answered: I’m at your service.

8 He asked me, ‘Who are you? ’ I told him: I’m an Amalekite.

9 Then he begged me, ‘Stand over me and kill me, for I’m mortally wounded, but my life still lingers.’

10 So I stood over him and killed him because I knew that after he had fallen he couldn’t survive. I took the crown that was on his head and the armband that was on his arm, and I’ve brought them here to my lord.”