²¹ Then Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon, “Be a man! Kill us yourself!” So Gideon killed them both and took the royal ornaments from the necks of their camels.

²⁶ The weight of the gold earrings was forty-three pounds,^[a] not including the royal ornaments and pendants, the purple clothing worn by the kings of Midian, or the chains around the necks of their camels.

⁶ In those days people will seek death but will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them!

Psalm 83

A song. A psalm of Asaph.

⁵ When his armor bearer realized that Saul was dead, he fell on his own sword and died beside the king.

³ The fighting grew very fierce around Saul, and the Philistine archers caught up with him and wounded him severely.

⁵⁴ He quickly said to his young armor bearer, “Draw your sword and kill me! Don’t let it be said that a woman killed Abimelech!” So the young man ran him through with his sword, and he died.