13. David said to the young man who brought him the report, ‘Where are you from?’‘I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite,’ he answered.
14. David asked him, ‘Why weren’t you afraid to lift your hand to destroy the Lord’s anointed?’
15. Then David called one of his men and said, ‘Go, strike him down!’ So he struck him down, and he died.
16. For David had said to him, ‘Your blood be on your own head. Your own mouth testified against you when you said, “I killed the Lord’s anointed.” ’
17. David took up this lament concerning Saul and his son Jonathan,
18. and he ordered that the people of Judah be taught this lament of the bow (it is written in the Book of Jashar):
19. ‘A gazelle lies slain on your heights, Israel.How the mighty have fallen!
20. ‘Tell it not in Gath,proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon,lest the daughters of the Philistines be glad,lest the daughters of the uncircumcised rejoice.