1. After Saul’s death, when David had returned from defeating the Amalekites, he stayed in Ziklag two days.
2. On the third day, a man showed up from Saul’s camp with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. When he reached David, he fell to the ground, bowing low out of respect.
3. "Where have you come from?" David asked him."I’ve escaped from the Israelite army!" he answered.
4. "What’s the report?" David asked him. "Tell me!"The man answered, "The troops fled from the battle! Many of the soldiers have fallen and died. What’s more, Saul and his son Jonathan have also died!"
5. "How do you know," David asked the young man who brought the news, "that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"
6. The young man who brought the news replied, "I just happened to be on Mount Gilboa and Saul was there, leaning on his spear, with chariots and horsemen closing in on him.
7. He turned around and saw me, then he called to me. ‘Yes, sir,’ I answered.
8. ‘Who are you?’ he asked, and I told him, ‘I’m an Amalekite.’
9. He said to me, ‘Please come over here and kill me, because convulsions have come over me but I’m still alive.’