¹Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.

¹Filistejci pa so se bojevali z Izraelom, in Izrael je zbežal pred Filistejci, in so padali pobiti na gorovju Gilboi.

²And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchishua, Saul's sons.

²In Filistejci so bili trdo za petami Savlu in sinovom njegovim, in pobili so Jonatana in Abinadaba in Malhisua, sinove Savlove.

³And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.

³In bitka je hudo pritiskala na Savla, in lokostrelci so ga dohiteli, in v strahu je trepetal pred strelci.

⁴Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

⁴Tedaj reče Savel svojemu oprodi: Izderi meč svoj in me prebodi, da ne pridejo ti neobrezanci in me ne prebodejo ter si smeh napravijo z menoj. Ali njegov oproda ni hotel, ker se je silno bal. Zato vzame Savel meč svoj in se nasadi nanj.

⁵And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.

⁵Ko pa vidi njegov oproda, da je Savel mrtev, nasadi se tudi on na svoj meč in umre ž njim.

⁶So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

⁶Tako je umrl Savel in trije sinovi njegovi in oproda njegov in možje njegovi, vsi skupaj tisti dan.

⁷And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side 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.

⁷Ko pa vidijo možje Izraelovi, ki so bili onostran doline in ki so bili za Jordanom, da bežé možje Izraelovi ter da so Savel in sinovi njegovi mrtvi, zapuste mesta svoja, pa pobegnejo. In Filistejci pridejo in se nastanijo po njih.

⁸And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.

⁸In drugi dan pridejo Filistejci, da slečejo pobite, in najdejo Savla in tri sinove njegove, ležeče na gorovju Gilboi.

⁹And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.

⁹In mu odsekajo glavo in snamejo z njega orožje njegovo, in pošljejo po deželi Filistejcev naokrog, da se ta vesela vest oznani v hiši njih malikov in med ljudstvom.

¹⁰And they put his armor in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.

¹⁰In orožje njegovo razpolože v hiši Astartini, truplo njegovo pa obesijo na zid v Betsanu.

¹¹And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;

¹¹Ko pa slišijo prebivalci v Jabesu v Gileadu, kaj so storili Filistejci Savlu,

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 Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.

¹²se vzdignejo, kar jih je bilo vojščakov, in gredo vso noč in snamejo truplo Savlovo in trupla sinov njegovih z zida v Betsanu, ter jih prineso v Jabes in jih ondi sežgo.In vzamejo njih kosti in jih pokopljejo pod tamarisko v Jabesu in se postijo sedem dni.

¹³And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

¹³In vzamejo njih kosti in jih pokopljejo pod tamarisko v Jabesu in se postijo sedem dni.