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1 Samuel 31:3

When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him critically.

1 Samuel 31:3 · BSB

1 Samuel 31:3 in context

The verses around it, from 1 Samuel 31.

1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

2 The Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

3 When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him critically.

4 Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run it through me, or these uncircumcised men will come and run me through and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

5 When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his own sword and died with him.

6 So Saul, his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men died together that same day.

7 When the Israelites along the valley and those on the other side of the Jordan saw that the army of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their cities and ran away. So the Philistines came and occupied their cities.

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1 Samuel 31:3 in other translations

KJV

And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.

ASV

And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.

ERV

And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.

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