1 Samuel 31:3-6
31:3 Saul himself was in the thick of the battle;
the archers
spotted him and wounded him severely.
31:4 Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and stab me with it! Otherwise these uncircumcised people will come, stab me, and torture me.” But his armor bearer refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took his sword and fell on it.
31:5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his own sword and died with him.
31:6 So Saul, his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men died together that day.
1 Samuel 31:2
31:2 The Philistines stayed right on the heels
of Saul and his sons. They
struck down Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua.
1 Samuel 1:4-10
1:4 Whenever the day came for Elkanah to sacrifice, he used to give meat portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.
1:5 But he would give a double
portion to Hannah, because he especially loved her.
Now the
Lord had not enabled her to have children.
1:6 Her rival wife used to upset her and make her worry,
for the
Lord had not enabled her to have children.
1:7 Peninnah
would behave this way year after year. Whenever Hannah
went up to the
Lord’s house, Peninnah
would upset her so that she would weep and refuse to eat.
1:8 Finally her husband Elkanah said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep and not eat? Why are you so sad?
Am I not better to you than ten
sons?”
1:9 On one occasion in Shiloh, after they had finished eating and drinking, Hannah got up. (Now at the time Eli the priest was sitting in his chair by the doorpost of the Lord’s temple.)
1:10 She was very upset as she prayed to the Lord, and she was weeping uncontrollably.
Amos 2:14
2:14 Fast runners will find no place to hide;
strong men will have no strength left;
warriors will not be able to save their lives.