The Death of Saul and His Sons
(1 Chronicles 10.1-12)1 The Philistines fought a battle against the Israelites on Mount Gilboa. Many Israelites were killed there, and the rest of them, including King Saul and his sons, fled. 2 But the Philistines caught up with them and killed three of Saul's sons, Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua. 3 The fighting was heavy around Saul, and he himself was hit by enemy arrows and badly wounded. 4 He said to the young man carrying his weapons, “Draw your sword and kill me, so that these godless Philistines won't gloat over me and kill me.” But the young man was too terrified to do it. So Saul took his own sword and threw himself on it. 5 The young man saw that Saul was dead, so he too threw himself on his own sword and died with Saul. 6 And that is how Saul, his three sons, and the young man died; all of Saul's men died that day. 7 When the Israelites on the other side of Jezreel Valley and east of the Jordan River heard that the Israelite army had fled and that Saul and his sons had been killed, they abandoned their towns and fled. Then the Philistines came and occupied the towns.
8 The day after the battle the Philistines went to plunder the corpses, and they found the bodies of Saul and his three sons lying on Mount Gilboa. 9 They cut off Saul's head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers with them throughout Philistia to tell the good news to their idols and to their people. 10 Then they put his weapons in the temple of the goddess Astarte, and they nailed his body to the wall of the city of Beth Shan.
11 When the people of Jabesh in Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, 12 the bravest men started out and marched all night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall, brought them back to Jabesh, and burned them there. 13 Then they took the bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in town, and fasted for seven days.
Onḓiro ya Saul novazandu ve
(1Eku 10:1-12)1 Ovafilisti va rwa ovita kuna Ovaisrael, nOvaisrael va taura, novengi va ṱa nave saravara kondundu Gilboa. 2 Ovafilisti va tezera Saul novazandu ve, nave kazepa ovazandu vetatu va Saul okutja ooJonatan na Abinadab na Malkisua. 3 Notjirwa tji tja kovera Saul tja ri otjizeu; ovanamauta tji ve mu muna, ve mu yaha ave mu tende tjinene. 4 Saul otja tja nai komutjinde wovirwise vye: “Nana engaruvyo roye u ndji zepe, kutja Ovafilisti ovahasukara ave he ya okundjihemba.” Nungwari ingwi omutjinde wovirwise vye wa panḓa, tjinga aa tira tjinene. Saul otja toora engaruvyo re ne riwisire ko omuini. 5 Nomutjinde wovirwise vye tja munu kutja Saul wa koka, eye wina arire tje riwisire kengaruvyo re, naveyevari otji va koka. 6 Saul novazandu ve vetatu, nomutjinde wovirwise vye, novandu avehe otji va ṱa meyuva ndo. 7 Ovaisrael mba turire komukuma mbwina wOrutjandja rwa Israel va taura, nokutja Saul wa ṱu puna ovazandu ve, arire tji va isa ovihuro mbi, nave tupuka; nOvafilisti otji ve ya, nave tura mu vyo.
8 Mependukirwa Ovafilisti va ya okukahuura oviṋa vyovaṱi, arire tji va munu orutu rwa Saul na itwi twovazandu ve vetatu atwa saravara kondundu Gilboa. 9 Nowo va konda otjiuru tja Saul, ave mu hukura ovirwise vye nave hindi ovatumwa komikuma avihe vyehi rOvafilisti okukainganisa ombuze youtoṋi mozondjuwo ozonḓere zovisenginina na motjiwaṋa. 10 Tjazumba otji va twa ovirwise vya Saul mondjuwo onḓere yomukuru wotjisenginina Astarte, nungwari indwi orutu rwe ve ru papera korumbo rwotjihuro Bet-San.
11 Novature va Jabes mOgilead tji va zuva imbi Ovafilisti mbi va tjita ku Saul, 12 ovarumendu imba omapenda tjinene otji va kayenda ouṱuku auhe; nowo va katurura orutu rwa Saul na itwi twovazandu ve korumbo rwa Bet-San, nave tu eta kOjabes, ku ve tu ningirisira. 13 Nowo va toora omaṱupa wawo, ave keyepaka kehi yomungwati kOjabes, nave keritjaera kovikurya oure womayuva hambombari.
