5David said to the young man who told him, How know you that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?
6The young man who told him said, As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and, behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him.
7When he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. I answered, Here am I.
8He said to me, Who are you? I answered him, I am an Amalekite.
9He said to me, Stand, I pray you, beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.
10So I stood beside him, and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and 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 on his clothes, and tore them; and likewise all the men who were with him:
