4. “What happened?” David said. “Tell me.” He answered that the soldiers had fled the battle and many of them had fallen and were dead; and that Saul and his son Jonathan were dead.
5. Then David said to the youth who was reporting to him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”
6. The youth reporting to him replied: “I happened to find myself on Mount Gilboa and saw Saul leaning on his spear, with chariots and horsemen closing in on him.
7. He turned around and saw me, and called me to him. When I said, ‘Here I am,’
8. he asked me, ‘Who are you?’ and I replied, ‘An Amalekite.’
9. Then he said to me, ‘Stand over me, please, and put me to death, for I am in great suffering, but still alive.’
10. So I stood over him and put him to death, for I knew that he could not survive his wound. I removed the crown from his head and the armlet from his arm and brought them here to my lord.”