The young man who was telling him this<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;I just happened to be on Mount Gilboa and came across Saul leaning on his spear for support. The chariots and leaders of the horsemen were in hot pursuit of him.

<p class="poetry">O mountains of Gilboa,p> <p class="poetry">may there be no dew or rain on you, nor fields of grain offerings!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For it was there that the shield of warriors was defiled;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the shield of Saul lies neglected without oil.<n id="3" />p>

he<n id="1" /> went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan<n id="2" /> from the leaders<n id="3" /> of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken<n id="4" /> them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines<n id="5" /> publicly exposed their corpses<n id="6" /> after<n id="7" /> they<n id="8" /> had killed Saul at Gilboa.)