5 When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword and died with him.
6 So Saul, his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men died together that same day.
7 When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those across the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the towns and fled. Then the Philistines came and occupied them.
8 It was the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
9 So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor, and sent them throughout the land of the Philistines, to spread the good news to the house of their idols and to the people.
10 Then they put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth and fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
11 Now when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,