_NOW THE PHILISTINES FOUGHT AGAINST ISRAEL; AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL FLED FROM BEFORE THE PHILISTINES, AND FELL DOWN SLAIN IN MOUNT GILBOA._ Now the Philistines fought against Israel. The details of this chapter have no relation to the preceding genealogies, and seem to be inserted solely to introduce... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PHILISTINES FOLLOWED HARD AFTER SAUL, AND AFTER HIS SONS; AND THE PHILISTINES SLEW JONATHAN, AND ABINADAB, AND MALCHISHUA, THE SONS OF SAUL._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE BATTLE WENT SORE AGAINST SAUL, AND THE ARCHERS HIT HIM, AND HE WAS WOUNDED OF THE ARCHERS._ The archers hit him, and he was wounded. The Hebrew words may be thus rendered: 'The archers found (attacked) him with the bow, and he was in pain from the archers.' He was not wounded, at least dan... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAID SAUL TO HIS ARMOURBEARER, DRAW THY SWORD, AND THRUST ME THROUGH THEREWITH; LEST THESE UNCIRCUMCISED COME AND ABUSE ME. BUT HIS ARMOURBEARER WOULD NOT; FOR HE WAS SORE AFRAID. SO SAUL TOOK A SWORD, AND FELL UPON IT._ His armour-bearer ... was sore afraid. He was, of course, placed in the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN HIS ARMOURBEARER SAW THAT SAUL WAS DEAD, HE FELL LIKEWISE ON THE SWORD, AND DIED._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL THAT WERE IN THE VALLEY SAW THAT THEY FLED, AND THAT SAUL AND HIS SONS WERE DEAD, THEN THEY FORSOOK THEIR CITIES, AND FLED: AND THE PHILISTINES CAME AND DWELT IN THEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY PUT HIS ARMOUR IN THE HOUSE OF THEIR GODS, AND FASTENED HIS HEAD IN THE TEMPLE OF DAGON._ Put his armour in the house of their gods. It was common among the pagan to vow to a national or favourite deity, that, in the event of a victory, the armour of the enemy's king, or of some eminent l... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN ALL JABESH-GILEAD HEARD ALL THAT THE PHILISTINES HAD DONE TO SAUL,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY AROSE, ALL THE VALIANT MEN, AND TOOK AWAY THE BODY OF SAUL, AND THE BODIES OF HIS SONS, AND BROUGHT THEM TO JABESH, AND BURIED THEIR BONES UNDER THE OAK IN JABESH, AND FASTED SEVEN DAYS._ They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons - (see the no... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO SAUL DIED FOR HIS TRANSGRESSION WHICH HE COMMITTED AGAINST THE LORD, EVEN AGAINST THE WORD OF THE LORD, WHICH HE KEPT NOT, AND ALSO FOR ASKING COUNSEL OF ONE THAT HAD A FAMILIAR SPIRIT, TO INQUIRE OF IT;_ Saul died for his transgression - in having spared the king of the Amalekites, and taking... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND INQUIRED NOT OF THE LORD: THEREFORE HE SLEW HIM, AND TURNED THE KINGDOM UNTO DAVID THE SON OF JESSE._ And inquired not of the Lord. He had done so in form (1 Samuel 28:6), but not in the spirit of a humble penitent, nor with the believing confidence of a sincere worshipper. His inquiry was in... [ Continue Reading ]