1 Chronicles · Chapter 10

[ edit] Philiſteis forſoþe fouȝten aȝeinus Yrael, and þe ſonys of Yrael flowen Paleſtynes, and woundide þei fellen in þe hil of Jeſboe. And whenn Philiſteis hadden neyȝid purſuynge Saul and his ſonys, þei ſmyten Jonaþan, and Abynadab, and Melchiſue, þe ſonys of Saul. And þe batayle is agreggid aȝeins Saul; and þer founden hym men ſcheters, and woundiden wiþ dartis. And Saul ſeyde to his ſquyer, Drawȝe out þi ſwerd, and ſlee me, leſt perauenture þe vncircumcidid commen, and ſcorne to me. Forſoþe his ſquyer wolde not done þat, by dreed agaſt; þanne Saul cauȝte a ſwerde, and felle in it.

Þe whiche whanne his ſquyer hadde ſeen, þat is, Saul to ben deed, alſo he felle in to his ſwerde, and is deed. Þanne Saul died, and his þre ſonys, and al þe hous of hym to gydre fel. Þe whiche þing whan þe men of Yrael hadden ſeen, þat dwelliden in þe wijlde feeldis, flowen; and Saul and his ſonys deed, þey forſoken þeir cytees, and hidir and þidir ben ſcatered; and Philiſteis camen, and dwelliden in hem. Þanne þe toþer day þe Philiſteis drawynge aweye þe ſpuylis of þe ſlayn men, founden Saul and his ſones lyinge in þe hil of Jelboe.

And whanne þei haden ſpuylid hym, and gird of þe heued, and nakenyd fro armys, þei ſenten in to þeir lond, þat he ſchuld be born about, and be ſchewid to þe templis of mawmetis and peplis; þe armys forſoþe of hym þei ſacriden in þe temple of þeir god, and þe heued þei fitchiden in þe temple of Dagon. Þat þing whan þe men of Jabes Galaad hadden herd, þat is, alle þingis þat þe Philiſteis dyden vpon Saul, echon of þe ſtronge men ryſen to gyder, and token þe careyns of Saul and his ſonys, and brouȝten hem in to Jabes, and birieden þe bones of hem vndir an ook, þat was in Jabes; and þei faſtiden ſeuen days.

Þanne Saul is deed for his wickidneſſis, for þi þat he brake þe maundement of þe Lord, þat he hadde comaundide, and kept it not, bot ouermore alſo he councelide a wytche, and hopid not in þe Lord; and for þe whiche þing he ſlewȝ hym, and tranſlatyde þe rewme of hym to Dauid, þe ſone of Yſay.