5. “How do you know Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” David asked the young man who had brought him the news.
6. The young man answered, “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa. Saul was there leaning on his spear, and the chariots and horsemen were catching up with him.
7. When he looked back and saw me, he called to me, and I said, ‘Yes?’ ”
8. “He asked me, ‘Who are you?’“I said to him, ‘I’m an Amalekite.’
9. “He said to me, ‘Please stand over me and kill me. I’m alive, but I’m suffering.’
10. “So I stood over him and killed him, since I knew he couldn’t survive after he had been wounded. And I took the crown that was on his head and the band that was on his arm and brought them here to you, sir.”
11. Then David grabbed his own clothes and tore them in grief. All the men with him did the same.
12. They mourned, cried, and fasted until evening because Saul, his son Jonathan, the Lord’s army, and the nation of Israel had been defeated in battle.
13. David asked the young man who had brought him the news, “Where are you from?”And the young man answered, “I’m an Amalekite, the son of a foreign resident.”
14. David asked, “Why weren’t you afraid to take it upon yourself to destroy the Lord’s anointed king?”