4. Then Saul said to the helper who carried his armor, “Pull out your sword and use it to kill me. Then these foreigners will not hurt me and make fun of me when they come.” But the helper was afraid. He refused to kill Saul. So Saul used his own sword to kill himself by falling on it.
5. When the helper saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his own sword and died.
6. So Saul and three of his sons died. All of Saul’s family died together.
7. When all the Israelites living in the valley saw that their own army had run away and that Saul and his sons were dead, they left their towns and ran away. Then the Philistines came into the towns and lived in them.