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

¹A Filištíni bojovali proti Izraelovi, a mužovia Izraelovi utekali pred Filištínmi a padali pobití na vrchu Gilboe.

²The Philistines followed hard on Saul and on his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

²A Filištíni stíhali Saula a jeho synov ženúc sa tesne za nimi. A tak zabili Filištíni Jonatána, Abinadába a Malkišuu, synov Saulových.

³The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.

³A tedy tiaž boja sa obrátila proti Saulovi, a keď nadišli na neho strelci, mužovia s lukami, veľmi sa triasol pred tými strelcami.

⁴Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me!” But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.

⁴Vtedy riekol Saul svojmu zbrojnošovi: Vytiahni svoj meč a prebodni ma ním, aby neprišli títo neobrezanci a neprebodli ma oni a neurobili si zo mňa posmechu! Ale jeho zbrojnoš nechcel, lebo sa bál veľmi. Vtedy pochytil Saul meč a naľahol naň.

⁵When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.

⁵A keď videl jeho zbrojnoš, že zomrel Saul, naľahol aj on na svoj meč a zomrel s ním.

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

⁶A tak zomrel Saul a jeho traja synovia a jeho zbrojnoš i všetci jeho mužovia toho dňa spolu.

⁷When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond 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 lived in them.

⁷A keď videli mužovia Izraelovi, ktorí boli na druhej strane doliny, jako aj tí, ktorí boli za Jordánom, že utekajú mužovia Izraelovi, a že zomrel Saul i jeho synovia, opustili tie mestá a tiež utekali. A prišli Filištíni a bývali v nich.

⁸It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

⁸A stalo sa na druhý deň, že prišli Filištíni, aby olúpili pobitých. A našli Saula a jeho troch synov ležať padlých na vrchu Gilboe.

⁹They cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to the house of their idols, and to the people.

⁹A odťali jeho hlavu, zobrali mu jeho zbraň a poslali po zemi Filištínov dookola, aby to s radosťou zvestovali v dome ich modiel i ľudu.

¹⁰They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.

¹⁰Potom složili jeho zbraň v dome Astaróty a jeho mŕtve telo pribili na múre mesta Bét-šána.

¹¹When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard concerning him that which the Philistines had done to Saul,

¹¹Ale keď počuli o tom obyvatelia Jabeš-gileáda, o tom, čo urobili Filištíni Saulovi,

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 they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.

¹²vzchopili sa všetci chrabrí mužovia a išli celú noc a vzali mŕtve telo Saulovo i mŕtve telá jeho synov s múra mesta Bét-šána a keď prišli do Jabeša, spálili ich tam.

¹³They took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

¹³Potom vzali ich kosti a pochovali ich pod tým stromom v Jabeši a postili sa sedem dní.