2 Samuel Chapter 1    

¹It was after the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, David stayed in Ziklag for two days.
  ²And on the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David he fell to the ground and paid homage.
  ³And David said to him, “Where have you come from?” He said to him, “I have escaped out of the camp of Israel.”
 

⁴Then David said to him, “How did things go? Now tell me!” And he answered, “The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people fell and are dead, and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.”
 

⁵David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?”
 

⁶The young man, the one telling him, said, “I happened, yes, happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen were closing in on him.
  ⁷When he turned around, he saw me and called to me, and I answered, ‘Here I am.’
  ⁸And he said to me, ‘Who are you?’ And I said to him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
  ⁹Then he said to me, ‘Please stand beside me and kill me, for dizziness has seized me though my life is still in me.’
  ¹⁰So I stood beside him and killed him because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. Then I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet that was on his arm and have brought them here to my lord.”
 

¹¹Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and likewise did all the men who were with him.
  ¹²And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of Yahweh and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
 

¹³And David said to the young man who told him, “Where are you from?” He answered, “I am the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite.”
 

¹⁴Then David said to him, “How were you not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy Yahweh’s anointed?”
  ¹⁵And David called one of the young men and said, “Go near and attack him!” And he struck him so that he died.
  ¹⁶And David said to him, “Your blood be on your head, for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have killed Yahweh’s anointed.’”
 

¹⁷And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son
  ¹⁸and he commanded to teach the sons of Judah the song of the bow, behold, it is written in the book of Jashar:
  ¹⁹“Your splendor, O Israel, is slain on your heights! How the mighty have fallen!
  ²⁰Do not tell it in Gath. Do not proclaim it on the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.
  ²¹O mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew nor rain on you, nor fields of offerings; For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
  ²²From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, Jonathan’s bow did not turn back. Saul’s sword did not return empty.
  ²³Saul and Jonathan—those beloved and delightful— in their lives and in their death they were not parted. They were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions.
  ²⁴O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and with other luxuries, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.
  ²⁵How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan, slain on your heights!
  ²⁶I am distraught over you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very delightful to me. Your love to me was more wonderful than the love of women.
  ²⁷How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war perished!”