“What happened?” David asked. “Tell me.”

“The men fled from the battle,” he replied. “Many of them fell and died. And Saul and his son Jonathan are dead.”

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Then David said to him, (A)“How did the matter go? Please tell me.”

And he answered, “The people have fled from the battle, many of the people are fallen and dead, and Saul and (B)Jonathan his son are dead also.”

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“Then he said to me, ‘Stand here by me and kill me!(A) I’m in the throes of death, but I’m still alive.’

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He said to me again, ‘Please stand over me and kill me, for [a]anguish has come upon me, but my life still remains in me.’

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 1:9 agony