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Summary
The tragic death of King Saul of Israel portrayed by Gustave Dore'.

The battle went hard for Saul and when the archers caught up with him they wounded him severely. He said to his armour-bearer, 'Draw your sword and run me through, so that these uncircumcised brutes may not come and taunt me and make sport of me.' But the armour-bearer refused...Thereupon Saul took his own sword and fell on it. (1 Samuel 31:3-4)

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