These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Samuel 31
Tanakh 13 verses
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Now the Philistines fought against , and the men of fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
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- 2 And the Philistines followed hard upon and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew , and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of .
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And the battle went sore against , an the archers overtook him; and he was in great anguish by reason of the archers.
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- 4 Then said to his armour-bearer: ‘Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and make a mock of me.’ But his armour-bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore took his sword, and fell upon it.
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And when his armour-bearer saw that was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword, and died with him.
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- 6 So died, and his three sons, and his armour-bearer, and all his men, that same day together.
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And when the men of that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were beyond the , saw that the men of fled, and that and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
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And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
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And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry the tidings unto the house of their idols, and to the people.
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And they put his armour in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
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And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard concerning him that which the Philistines had done to ,
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all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
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And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk-tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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