4 “How did things go?” David asked him. “Please, tell me.” He answered, “The troops fled the battlefield—also many of the troops fell and died. And even Saul and his son Jonathan are dead.”
5 David asked the young man informing him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”
6 The young man informing him answered, “I happened by chance to be on Mount Gilboa, and look, Saul was leaning on his spear, while the chariots and the horsemen were closing in on him.
7 When he turned around and saw me, he called me. So I answered, ‘Here I am.’
8 Then he asked me, ‘Who are you?’ “So I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
9 So he said to me, ‘Stand now over me and kill me! For I’m in agony, yet I’m still alive.’
10 So I stood over him and killed him, because I knew he couldn’t survive after he had fallen. Then I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet that was on his arm, and brought them here—to my lord.”