2 Samuel 1:9 meaning and explanation

Then he begged me, ‘Stand over me and kill me, for agony has seized me, but my life still lingers.’

2 Samuel 1:9, Berean Standard Bible

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These are the words the Amalekite messenger reports to David, quoting Saul as he lay wounded on Mount Gilboa with the Philistines closing in. Saul asks the man to finish him, saying agony has seized him though life lingers.

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