4. Then David said to him, “How did things go? Please tell me.” He answered, “When the army fled from the battle, and many of the people fell; also, Saul and Jonathan his son died.”
5. Then David asked the young man who was reporting to him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan died?”
6. The young man who was reporting to him said, “I merely happened to be on Mount Gilboa. Here Saul was leaning on his spear, and look, the chariots and the horsemen were getting close to him.
7. When he turned around and saw me, he called to me, and I said, ‘Here I am.’
8. Then he said to me, ‘Who are you?’ And I said to him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
9. He said to me, ‘Please stand over me and kill me, for convulsions have seized me, even though my life is still in me.’
10. So I stood over him and killed him, for I knew that he could not live after his falling; I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet which was on his arm; and here, I have brought them to my lord.
11. David grabbed at his clothes and tore them, as did all of the men who were with him.
12. Then they mourned and wept and fasted over Saul and Jonathan his son until the evening, as well as over the people of Yahweh and over the house of Israel because they had fallen by the sword.