ul and them of Israel, and fought a great battle, and the men
of Israel fled from the face of the Philistines, and many of them were
slain in the mount of Gilboa. The Philistines smote in against Saul and
his sons, and slew Jonathan and Abinadab, and Melchi-shua, sons of Saul.
And all the burden of the battle was turned on Saul, and the archers
followed him and wounded him sore. Then said Saul to his squire: Pluck
out thy sword and slay me, that these men uncircumcised come not and,
scorning, slay me; and his squire would not for he was greatly afeard.
Then Saul took his sword and slew himself, which thing when his squire
saw, that is that Saul was dead, he took his sword and fell on it and
was dead with him. Thus was Saul dead, and his three sons and his
squire, and all his men that day together. Then the children of Israel
that were thereabouts, and on that other side of Jordan, seeing that the
men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his three sons were dead, left
their cities and fled. The Philistines came and dwelled there, and the
next day the Philistines went for to rifle and pillage them that were
dead, and they found Saul and his three sons lying in the hill of
Gilboa. And they cut off the head of Saul, and robbed him of his armor,
and sent it into the land of the Philistines all about, that it might be
showed in the temple of their idols, and unto the people; and set up his
arms in the temple of Ashtaroth, and hung his body on the wall of
Bethshan. And when the men that dwelt in Jabesh-Gilead saw what the
Philistines had done unto Saul, all the strongest men of them arose and
went all that night and took down the bodies of Saul and of his sons
from the wall of Bethshan and burned them, and took the bones and buried
them in the wood of Jabesh-Gilead and fasted seven days.

_Thus endeth the life of Saul which was first king upon Israel, and for
disobedience of God's commandment was slain, and his heirs never reigned
long after._

THE HISTORY OF DAVID

_Here followeth how David reigned after Saul, and governed Israel.
Shortly taken out of the Bible, the most historical matters and but
little touched._

After the death of Saul David returned from the journey that he had
against Amalek. For whilst David had been out with Achish the king, they
of Amalek had been in Ziklag and taken all that was therein prisoners,
and robbed and carried away with them the two wives of David, and had
set fire and burned the t