Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.
We shall not make line by line comments on this chapter, for we have already discussed it in the closing chapter of 1Samuel and the opening chapter of 2Samuel.  As Curtis (and Madsen) noted: "This account of the death of Saul is taken from  1 Samuel 31:1-13 with a few slight variations."[2]