1Sa 1 Samuel, chapter First Book of Samuel, chapter 31
Meanwhile the Philistines had attacked Israel, and the Israelite army ran away from them, and many were killed on Mount Gilboa. 1Ch 10:1The Philistines chased down Saul and his sons, killing Saul's sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua. 1Sa 14:49The fighting became very intense around Saul, and the arrows of the Philistine archers found their target, wounding Saul very badly.
Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Take your sword and kill me, or these heathen31:4. “Heathen”: literally, “uncircumcised.” men will come and kill and torture me!”
But the armor-bearer didn't want to do it because he was too afraid. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it. When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his own sword and died with him. Saul, his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all the men with him, died the same day.1Sa 28:19; 1Ch 10:6
When the Israelites who lived along the valley and those on the other side of the Jordan realized that the Israelite army had run away, and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their cities and they also ran away. So the Philistines came and took them over.1Ch 10:7
The next day, when the Philistines went to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons lying on Mount Gilboa. They cut off Saul's head, stripped him of his armor, and sent messengers throughout the country of the Philistines to announce the news in the temples of their idols and to their people. They placed his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths, and nailed his body to the town wall of Beth-shan.2Sa 21:12
However, when the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, 2Sa 2:4all their strong warriors set out, traveled all night, and took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they got back to Jabesh, they burned the bodies there. 2Sa 2:4Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted for seven days.2Sa 21:12; 1Ch 10:12