2 Samuel 1:6

New English Translation

The young man who was telling him this said, “I just happened to be on Mount Gilboa and came across Saul leaning on his spear for support. The chariots and leaders of the horsemen were in hot pursuit of him.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:21

O mountains of Gilboa, may there be no dew or rain on you, nor fields of grain offerings! For it was there that the shield of warriors was defiled; the shield of Saul lies neglected without oil.

2 Samuel 1:5

David said to the young man who was telling him this, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”

2 Samuel 1:7

When he turned around and saw me, he called out to me. I answered, ‘Here I am!’

Luke 10:31

Now by chance a priest was going down that road, but when he saw the injured man he passed by on the other side.

Ruth 2:3

So Ruth went and gathered grain in the fields behind the harvesters. Now she just happened to end up in the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.

1 Samuel 28:4

The Philistines assembled; they came and camped at Shunem. Saul mustered all Israel and camped at Gilboa.

1 Samuel 6:9

But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.”