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.’