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1 Chronicles 10:5
And when his servant saw that Saul was dead, he did the same, and came to his death.
1 Chronicles 10:5 · Bible in Basic English
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1 Chronicles 10:5 in other translations
And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on the sword, and died.
When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his own sword and died.
When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword and died.
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In context
2 And the Philistines went hard after Saul and his sons, and put to death Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.
3 And the fight was going against Saul, and the archers came across him, and he was wounded by the archers.
4 Then Saul said to the servant who had the care of his arms, Take your sword and put it through me, before these men without circumcision come and make sport of me. But his servant, full of fear, would not do so. Then Saul took out his sword, falling on it himself.
5 And when his servant saw that Saul was dead, he did the same, and came to his death.
6 So death overtook Saul and his three sons; all his family came to an end together.
7 And when all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that the men of Israel had gone in flight and that Saul and his sons were dead, they went in flight away from their towns; and the Philistines came and took them for themselves.
8 Now the day after, when the Philistines came to take their goods from the dead, they saw Saul and his sons dead in Mount Gilboa.
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