21 “You mountains of iGilboa,
let there be no dew or rain upon you,
nor fields of offerings!
For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,
the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
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1 Samuel 31:8
The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
2 Samuel 1:6
And the young man who told him said, “By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and there was Saul leaning on his spear, and behold, the chariots and the horsemen were close upon him.
2 Samuel 21:12
David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa.
1 Chronicles 10:8
The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
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