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1 Chronicles 10
⁷ When all the Israelites in the Jezreel Valley saw that their army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their towns and fled. So the Philistines moved in and occupied their towns.
⁸ The next day, when the Philistines went out to strip the dead, they found the bodies of Saul and his sons on Mount Gilboa.
⁹ So they stripped off Saul’s armor and cut off his head. Then they proclaimed the good news of Saul’s death before their idols and to the people throughout the land of Philistia.
¹⁰ They placed his armor in the temple of their gods, and they fastened his head to the temple of Dagon.
¹¹ But when everyone in Jabesh-gilead heard about everything the Philistines had done to Saul,
¹² all their mighty warriors brought the bodies of Saul and his sons back to Jabesh. Then they buried their bones beneath the great tree at Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days.
¹³ So Saul died because he was unfaithful to the LORD. He failed to obey the LORD’s command, and he even consulted a medium
¹⁴ instead of asking the LORD for guidance. So the LORD killed him and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.
1 Chronicles 11
¹ Then all Israel gathered before David at Hebron and told him, “We are your own flesh and blood.
² In the past, even when Saul was king, you were the one who really led the forces of Israel. And the LORD your God told you, ‘You will be the shepherd of my people Israel. You will be the leader of my people Israel.’”
³ So there at Hebron, David made a covenant before the LORD with all the elders of Israel. And they anointed him king of Israel, just as the LORD had promised through Samuel.