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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

⁵When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on 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 armor bearer, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

¹¹When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard concerning him 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 Beth Shan; and they 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.

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

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