The Philistines assembled and came and encamped (A)at Shunem. And Saul gathered all Israel, and they encamped (B)at Gilboa.

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And the young man who told him said, (A)“By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and there was Saul leaning on his spear, and behold, the chariots and the horsemen were close upon him.

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21 (A)“You mountains of Gilboa,
    let there be no dew or rain upon you,
    nor fields of offerings![a]
For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,
    the shield of Saul, not (B)anointed with oil.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 1:21 Septuagint firstfruits

12 David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, (A)who had stolen them from the public square of (B)Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa.

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