5When the armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his sword and died with him.


In Context

2 The Philistines pressed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed his sons Jonathan, Abinadab and Malki-Shua.

3 The fighting grew fierce around Saul, and when the archers overtook him, they wounded him critically.

4 Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword and run me through, or these uncircumcised fellows will come and run me through and abuse me." But his armor-bearer was terrified and would not do it; so Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

5 When the armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his sword and died with him.

6 So Saul and his three sons and his armor-bearer and all his men died together that same day.

7 When the Israelites along the valley and those across the Jordan saw that the Israelite army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their towns and fled. And the Philistines came and occupied them.

1st Samuel 31:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

31:5And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

31:5And when his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on his sword, and died with him.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

31:5And when his armourbearer saw this, to wit, that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died with him.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

31:5And when his armorbearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword, and died with him.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:5And when his armour-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on his sword, and died with him.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

31:5And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword, and died with him.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:5And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:5When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

31:5And the bearer of his weapons seeth that Saul is dead, and he falleth — he also — on his sword, and dieth with him;