- Tribe: Benjamin (1 Samuel 10:20-21)
- Father: Saul
- Mother: Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz
- Siblings: Jonathan, Ishvi, Merab, Michal, Abinadab, and Ish-bosheth. (1 Samuel 14:49-51; 1 Samuel 31:2; 2 Samuel 2:8)
Israel fled before Philistines on Mount Gilboa. Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchi-shua were killed, and Saul and his armor-bearer fell upon their own swords. The next day, the Philistines came to strip the slain and found Saul and his sons dead. They cut off Saul's head, stripped his armor, sent messengers throughout Philistia to carry news to the house of their idols and the people, and put his armor in the temple of Ashtaroth and fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. The people of Jabesh-gilead heard this, went all night to take the body of Saul and his sons and came to Jabesh to burn them there. Their bones were buried under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted 7 days.
(1 Samuel 31)