9 He said to me again, ‘Please stand over me and kill me, for¹ anguish has come upon me, but my life still remains in me.’  ‡

10 So I stood over him and ^akilled him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. And I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord.”  ‡

12 And they ^amourned and wept and ^bfasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son, for the ^cpeople of the Lord and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.  ‡

13 Then David said to the young man who told him, “Where are you from?” And he answered, “I am the son of an alien, an Amalekite.”