This chapter is a parallel to 1 Samuel 31 with much of the 2 chapters identical word for word. It tells the story of a battle between the Philistines and the Israelites when first of all the Philistines kill King Saul's sons Jonathan, Abinadab and Malki-Shua. Then they pursued Saul and the archers wounded him. Saul ordered his armour-bearer to finish him off, but he couldn't bring himself to do it, so Saul fell on his own sword and killed himself. The Philistines came and stripped him and cut off his head and hung it in the temple of their pagan god Dagon. Saul suffered this tragic demise because he was unfaithful to God to the extent of even consulting a medium rather than the Lord. So the Lord put him to death and gave the kingdom to David.
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