8. ‘He asked me, “Who are you?”‘ “An Amalekite,” I answered.
9. ‘Then he said to me, “Stand here by me and kill me! I’m in the throes of death, but I’m still alive.”
10. ‘So I stood beside him and killed him, because I knew that after he had fallen he could not survive. And I took the crown that was on his head and the band on his arm and have brought them here to my lord.’
11. Then David and all the men with him took hold of their clothes and tore them.
12. They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the Lord and for the nation of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
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.