1 Chronicles 10:6

_SO SAUL DIED, AND HIS THREE SONS, AND ALL HIS HOUSE DIED TOGETHER._ Saul died ... and all his house - his sons and courtiers who were here engaged in the battle. But it appears that Ishbosheth and Mephibosheth were kept at Gibeah on account of their youth....

Verse 1 Chronicles 10:6. _SO SAUL DIED - AND ALL HIS HOUSE_] Every branch of his family that had followed him to the war was cut off; his _three_ _sons_ are mentioned as being the chief. No doubt all his officers were slain....

ALL HIS HOUSE DIED TOGETHER - Not the whole of his family, nor even “all his sons” (see 2Sa 2:8-15; 2 Samuel 3:6; 2 Samuel 4:1). The phrase is perhaps an abbreviation of the expression in the parallel passage of Samuel 1 Samuel 31:6....

EXPOSITION It is evident that the compiler of the Chronicles intended its history proper to begin substantially with the reign of David. Strictly, however, it opens with the last mournful chapter of the career of Saul and his sons, or of three out of the four (1 Chronicles 9:39) of them. The mention of Saul had been prepared for by the short preamble of his pedigree and family; and, in like manner, the way is paved for the introduction of the reign add deeds of David by the brief and affecting narration of the end of his predecessor on the throne. The last chapter of the First Book of Samuel occupies itself with the same subject and covers the same ground. Our present chapter compared with that is sufficient to convince us that both were drawn from some common source or sources. It is not possible to suppose that the writer of Chronicles merely copied from the Book o

1 Samuel 31:6...

II. THE OVERTHROW AND END OF SAUL CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The overthrow and death of Saul (1 Chronicles 10:1)_ 2. The burial of Saul and his sons (1 Chronicles 10:8) 3. The cause of Saul's failure (1 Chronicles 10:13) 1 Samuel 31 contains the same record of Saul's miserable end and trial. The writer of Chronicles uses the departure of Saul to introduce the history of the king after God's own heart, why God had dealt with Saul in judgment, and that the kingdom was turned unto David, the son of Jesse. The fatal battle between the Philistines and Israel took place in Mount Gilboa.

PART II (1 Chronicles 10-29). THE REIGN OF DAVID. 1 Chronicles 10:1. The Death of Saul (see notes on 1 Samuel 31:1). 1 Chronicles 10:10. the house of their gods: altered purposely by the Chronicler instead of the house of Ashtaroth in 1 Samuel 31:10 (LXX Ashtoreth). HIS HEAD IN THE HOUSE OF DAGON: 1 Samuel 31:10 his body to the wall of Beth-Shan. 1 Chronicles 10:12. buried: accord

SO SAUL DIED. Here, the event. In 1 Chronicles 10:13, the reason. See the Structure above. HIS THREE SONS. three of his sons. ALL. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Whole), App-6, put for greater part. See 2 Samuel 2:8; 2 Samuel 21:8. HOUSE. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), for family or household....

There are several variations between the text given here and the text of 1 Sam., which are noticed as they occur in the following notes. 1. _in mount Gilboa_ In the campaign of Gilboa the Philistines shewed new and skilful strategy. Instead of at once marching eastward up the ravines which lead into Judah and Benjamin in which there was no room for their chariots (2 Samuel 1:6) to manœuvre they first marched northward along the sea-coast and then turned eastward just before reaching Mount Carmel. This movement brought them into the great fertile plain watered by the Kishon, ground over which chariots could act with decisive effect. At the N.E. end of the plain rose the heights of Gilboa. When Saul and his Benjamites advanced to meet the Philistines, the latter succeeded in interposing themselves between the Israelite army and its base in Benjamin an easy achievement for an enemy who by...

ALL HIS HOUSE DIED TOGETHER— 1:e. All of his house or family who were with him that day. In 1 Samuel 31:6 it is _all his men._...