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1 It was tolde Dauid of Sauls death. 15 He causeth him to be slayne that broght the tydings 19 He lamenteth the death of Saul and Ionathán.

1.After the death of Saúl, when Dauid was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites and had bene two dayes in Ziklag,

2.Beholde, ^a man came the third day out of the hoste from Saúl with his clothes rent, and earth vpon his head: & when he came to Dauid, he fel to the earth, and did obeisance.

3.Then Dauid said vnto him, Whence comest thou? And he said vnto him, Out of the hoste of Israél I am escaped.

4.And Dauid said vnto him, What is done? I pray thee, tel me. Then he said, that the people is fled from the battel, and many of the people are ouerthrowen, and dead, and also Saúl and Ionathán his sonne are dead.

5.And Dauid said vnto the yong man, that tolde it him, How knowest thou that Saúl and Ionathán his sonne be dead?

6.Then the yong man that tolde him, answered, ^b As I came to mount Gilbóa, beholde, Saúl leaned vpon his speare, and lo, the charets and ^* horsemen followed hard after him.

7.And when he loked backe, he sawe me, and called me. And I answered, Here am I.

8.And he said vnto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an ^c Amalekite.

9.Then said he vnto me, I pray thee, come vpon me, and slaye me: for anguish is come vpon me, because my ^d life is yet whole in me.

10.So ^e I came vpon him, and flewe him, because I was sure that he colde not liue, after that he had fallen, I toke the crowne that was vpon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arme, and broght them hither vnto my lord.

11.Then Dauid toke holde on his clothes, ^* & rent them, and likewise all the men that were with him.

12.And they mourned and wept, and fasted vntil euen for Saúl and for Ionathán his sonne, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israél, because they were slaine with the sworde.

13.^e Afterward Dauid said vnto the yong man that tolde it him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the sonne of a stranger an Amalekite.

14.And Dauid said vnto him, ^* How wast thou not afraied, to put forthe thine hand to destroy the Anoynted of the Lord?

15.Then Dauid called one of his yong men, & said, Go nere, and fall vpon him. And he smote him that he dyed.

16.Then said Dauid vnto him, ^f Thy blood be vpon thine owne head: for thine owne mouth hathe testified against thee, saying, I haue slaine the Lords Anointed.

17.¶ Then Dauid mourned with this lamentation ouer Saúl, and ouer Ionathán his sonne,

18.(Also he bade them teache the children of Iudáh to shoote, as it is written in the boke of ^* Iashér)

19.O noble Israél, ^h he is slaine vpon thy hie places: how are the mighty ouerthrowen?

20.^* Tel it not in Gath, nor publish it in the stretes of Ashkelón, lest the daughters of the Philistims reioyce, lest the daughters of the vncircumcised triumphe.

21.Ye mountaines of Gilbóa, vpon you be nether dewe nor raine, nor ⁱ be there fields of offrings: for there the shield of the mightie is cast downe, the shield of Saúl, as thogh he had not bene anoynted with oyle.

22.The bowe of Ionathán neuer turned backe, nether did the sworde of Saúl returne empty from the blood of the slaine, and from the fat of the mighty.

23.Saúl and Ionathán were louely and pleasant in their liues, and in their deathes they were not ^k deuided: they were swifter then egles, they were stronger then lions.

24.Ye daughters of Israél, wepe for Saúl, which clothed you in scarlet, ^l with pleasures, and hanged ornaments of golde vpon your apparel.

25.How were the mighty slaine in the middes of the battel? Ionathán, thou wast slaine in thine hie places.

26.Wo is me for thee, my brother Ionathán: very kinde hast thou bene vnto me: thy loue to me was wonderful, passing the loue of ^m women: how are the mighty ouerthrowen, and the weapons of warre destroyed?

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