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Venerdi, 29 marzo 2024 - Santi Simplicio e Costantino ( Letture di oggi)

1 Chronicles 10


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1Now the Philistines were at war with Israel; the Israelites fled before the Philistines, and a number of them fell, slain on Mount Gilboa.2The Philistines pressed hard after Saul and his sons. When the Philistines had killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, sons of Saul,3the whole fury of the battle descended upon Saul. Then the archers found him, and wounded him with their arrows.4Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, that these uncircumcised may not come and maltreat me." But the armor-bearer, in great fear, refused. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it;5and seeing him dead, the armor-bearer also fell on his sword and died.6Thus, with Saul and his three sons, his whole house died at one time.7When all the Israelites who were in the valley saw that Saul and his sons had died in the rout, they left their cities and fled; thereupon the Philistines came and occupied them.8On the following day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons where they had fallen on Mount Gilboa.9They stripped him, cut off his head, and took his armor; these they sent throughout the land of the Philistines to convey the good news to their idols and their people.10His armor they put in the house of their gods, but his skull they impaled on the temple of Dagon.11When all the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead had heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,12its warriors rose to a man, recovered the bodies of Saul and his sons, and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the oak of Jabesh, and fasted seven days.13Thus Saul died because of his rebellion against the LORD in disobeying his command, and also because he had sought counsel of a necromancer,14and had not rather inquired of the LORD. Therefore the LORD slew him, and transferred his kingdom to David, the son of Jesse.