_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 - in a regular engagement, in which the two armies met (1 Samuel 28:1). The battle probably began upon the great plain,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PHILISTINES FOLLOWED HARD UPON SAUL AND UPON HIS SONS; AND THE PHILISTINES SLEW JONATHAN, AND ABINADAB, AND MELCHISHUA, SAUL'S SONS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE BATTLE WENT SORE AGAINST SAUL, AND THE ARCHERS HIT HIM; AND HE WAS SORE WOUNDED OF THE ARCHERS._ The battle went sore against Saul ... and he was sore wounded of the archers. [The Septuagint has eis ta hupochondria, in the bowels.] He seems to have bravely maintained his ground for some ti... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAID SAUL UNTO HIS ARMOURBEARER, DRAW THY SWORD, AND THRUST ME THROUGH THEREWITH; LEST THESE UNCIRCUMCISED COME AND THRUST ME THROUGH, AND ABUSE ME. BUT HIS ARMOURBEARER WOULD NOT; FOR HE WAS SORE AFRAID. THEREFORE SAUL TOOK A SWORD, AND FELL UPON IT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO SAUL DIED, AND HIS THREE SONS, AND HIS ARMOURBEARER, AND ALL HIS MEN, THAT SAME DAY TOGETHER._ So Saul died, and his three sons. Thus ended the troubled reign of Saul, who was elected to be the first king of Israel by a wisdom superior to human (2 Samuel 21:6); and in the wayward exercise of hi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE MEN OF ISRAEL THAT WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE VALLEY, AND THEY THAT WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE JORDAN, SAW THAT THE MEN OF ISRAEL FLED, AND THAT SAUL AND HIS SONS WERE DEAD, THEY FORSOOK THE CITIES, AND FLED; AND THE PHILISTINES CAME AND DWELT IN THEM._ The men of Israel that were on t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE MORROW, WHEN THE PHILISTINES CAME TO STRIP THE SLAIN, THAT THEY FOUND SAUL AND HIS THREE SONS FALLEN IN MOUNT GILBOA._ On the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain. On discovering the corpses of the slaughtered princes on the battlefield, the enemy reserve... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY CUT OFF HIS HEAD, AND STRIPPED OFF HIS ARMOUR, AND SENT INTO THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES ROUND ABOUT, TO PUBLISH IT IN THE HOUSE OF THEIR IDOLS, AND AMONG THE PEOPLE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE INHABITANTS OF JABESH-GILEAD HEARD OF THAT WHICH THE PHILISTINES HAD DONE TO SAUL;_ When the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard of that which the Philistines had done. This city was situated nearly opposite Beth-shan, on the other side of Jordan; and its people, mindful of the importa... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALL THE VALIANT MEN AROSE, AND WENT ALL NIGHT, AND TOOK THE BODY OF SAUL AND THE BODIES OF HIS SONS FROM THE WALL OF BETHSHAN, AND CAME TO JABESH, AND BURNT THEM THERE._ And went all night. Considering that Beth-shan is about three hours' distance, and by a narrow upland passage, to the west of th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY TOOK THEIR BONES, AND BURIED THEM UNDER A TREE AT JABESH, AND_ And buried them under a tree at Jabesh. х_ TACHAT_ (H8478) _ HAA'ESHEL_ (H815), under the tamarisk: cf. 1 Chronicles 10:12, where the word used is _ HAA'EELAAH_ (H424), a terebinth; any strong tree. The Septuagint has: hupo te... [ Continue Reading ]