Read 1 Samuel 31.1-13
In 31.1-13: Saul's death.
1 Chronicles 10 contains a parallel account.
In verse 4: These uncircumcised are the Philistines.
Saul does not want to suffer humiliation and torture at their hands, so he asks his armor-bearer to finish him off.
The armor-bearer refuses, perhaps out of respect for the Lord's anointed.
In verses 11-13: The men of Jabesh rescue Saul's body.
They are moved to do this because of Saul's rescue of their city at the beginning of his reign (10.27b-11.15).
It is unusual that they burned the bodies of Saul and his sons (v. 12), since cremation was not practiced by the Israelites.
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