4 "What happened?" David said. "Tell me." He answered that the soldiers had fled the battle and many of them had fallen and were dead; and that Saul and his son Jonathan were dead.

5 Then David said to the youth who was reporting to him, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"

6 [AB] The youth reporting to him replied: "I happened to find myself on Mount Gilboa and saw Saul leaning on his spear, with chariots and horsemen closing in on him.