1 Samuel 31:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁵ When the armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also impaled himself on his sword and died with Saul.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And when his armor bearer had seen this, namely, that Saul had died, he too fell upon his sword, and he died with him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

1 Samuel 31:5 Cross References

1 Kings 16:18

When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king’s house; he burned down the king’s house over himself with fire and died—

1 Chronicles 10:5

When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died.

Judges 9:54

Immediately he called to the young man who carried his armor and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, so people will not say about me, ‘A woman killed him.’ ” So the young man thrust him through, and he died.

1 Samuel 31:4

Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, so that these uncircumcised may not come and thrust me through and make sport of me.” But his armor-bearer was unwilling, for he was terrified. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

1 Samuel 31:6

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