Then the Philistines gathered together, and came and encamped at (A)Shunem. So Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped at (B)Gilboa.

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The Tragic End of Saul and His Sons(A)

31 Now (B)the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell slain on Mount (C)Gilboa.

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18 And their territory went to Jezreel, and included Chesulloth, Shunem,

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Elisha Raises the Shunammite’s Son(A)

Now it happened one day that Elisha went to (B)Shunem, where there was a [a]notable woman, and she [b]persuaded him to eat some food. So it was, as often as he passed by, he would turn in there to eat some food.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 4:8 Lit. great
  2. 2 Kings 4:8 Lit. laid hold on him

12 Then David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of (A)Jabesh Gilead who had stolen them from the street of [a]Beth Shan, where the (B)Philistines had hung them up, after the Philistines had struck down Saul in Gilboa.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 21:12 Beth Shean, Josh. 17:11

21 “O (A)mountains of Gilboa,
(B)Let there be no dew nor rain upon you,
Nor fields of offerings.
For the shield of the mighty is [a]cast away there!
The shield of Saul, not (C)anointed with oil.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 1:21 Lit. defiled

Then the young man who told him said, “As I happened by chance to be on (A)Mount Gilboa, there was (B)Saul, leaning on his spear; and indeed the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.

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