George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
1 Chronicles 10:10
Head, while his body was hung on the walls of Bethsan, 1 Kings xxxi. 10. (Calmet) --- The temple of Dagon was contiguous to the wall. (Du Hamel)
Head, while his body was hung on the walls of Bethsan, 1 Kings xxxi. 10. (Calmet) --- The temple of Dagon was contiguous to the wall. (Du Hamel)
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 ...
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
GODS. Ashtaroth. Compare 1 Samuel 31:10. HIS HEAD. This is additional to 1 Samuel 31:10. "His body", there, is additional to this passage. The two books thus independent and complementary....
in _the house of their gods_ In Samuel (more definitely) "in the house (_or_houses) of Ashtaroth," Ashtaroth being the plural of _Ashtoreth_, a goddess, who seems here to bear a martial character. She...
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...
II. THE HISTORY OF KING DAVID (1 Chronicles 10:1 to 1 Chronicles 29:30) 1. THE OVERTHROW OF SAUL (1 Chronicles 10:1-14) TEXT...
_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 fa...
SAUL'S OVERTHROW AND DEATH This chapter is abbreviated from 1 Samuel 31:1, but supplements it by statements that Saul's head was fastened in the temple of Dagon, and by a brief explanation of the cau...
THE BOOK OF 1 CHRONICLES GOD RULES HISTORY 1 CHRONICLES _Ian Mackervoy_ CHAPTER 10 David becomes king –...
IN THE HOUSE OF THEIR GODS. — Or god, as LXX. Samuel, “house of Ashtaroth,” which the chronicler or his source paraphrases, perhaps from a repugnance to mentioning the idol’s name. Ashtoreth had a gre...
וַ יָּשִׂ֨ימוּ֙ אֶת ־כֵּלָ֔יו בֵּ֖ית אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֑ם...
Here in sublime and graphic language is recounted the story of the death of the king chosen by men. It is a terrible picture of a man of magnificent capability going down to utter ruin. Routed by his...
And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of (a) Dagon. (a) Which was the idol of the Philistines, and from the belly downward had the form of a fish, an...
What an humbling lesson is here read to great men! The body of Saul, the first king of Israel, and who had slain his thousands, as the Song of Israel proclaimed, to be thus made a spectacle of derisio...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10, 11, AND 12. A brief recital of the ruin of Saul's house introduces Jehovah's establishment of the house of David. All that took place before the people g...
1 Samuel 31:10...
_And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon._ Ver. 10. _And fastened his head._] In way of abuse and mockage; so, that which Saul feared came upo...
_In the temple of Dagon_ If we give not God the glory of our successes, even Philistines will rise up in judgment with us, and condemn us. Shall Dagon have so great a place in their triumphs, and the...
1 Sauls ouerthrow and death. 8 The Philistines triumph ouer Saul. 11 The kindnes of [HIS DEATH.] Iabesh Gilead, towards Saul and his sonnes. 13 Sauls sinne for which the kingdome was translated f...
And they put his armor in the house of their gods, in the temple of Astarte, as trophies of the great victory, AND FASTENED HIS HEAD IN THE TEMPLE OF DAGON, their chief god, while the trunk was affixe...
THE TRIUMPH OF THE PHILISTINES...
And his body severed from his head to the wall of Beth-shan, 1 SAMUEL 31:10....
1 Chronicles 10:10 put H7760 (H8799) armor H3627 temple H1004 gods H430 fastened H8628 (H8804) head H1538
CONTENTS: Saul's overthrow and death. Triumph of the Philistines. Saul's sin. CHARACTERS: God, Saul, Jonathan, David. CONCLUSION: Those who abandon themselves to the devil's leading will be abandone...
1 Chronicles 10:2. _The Philistines followed hard after Saul._ Here are no chronicles from Samuel to Saul's death, about fifty years. REFLECTIONS. Samuel, and other prophets, had kept records of the...
_And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul._ A GOOD BEGINNING WITH A BAD ENDING Many men begin with influential parentage, social station,...
1 CHRONICLES 10:1 David’s Rise to Power over Israel. The Chronicler focuses on Israel’s unity under David, passing over most of the conflict with Saul and Ishbosheth that 2 Samuel 1:1 describes....
CRITICAL NOTES.] The genealogical introduction now closed. Narrative in twenty Chapter s describes the reign of David. The first 12 verses in this chapter a second edition of 1 Samuel 31, with variati...
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 t...
And in chapter ten, we have the story, once more, of Saul's death. How in fighting against the Philistines up near mount Gilboa that Saul fell before the Philistines. He was hit with one of the arrows...
1 Samuel 31:10; 1 Samuel 5:2...
Temple of Dagon — If we give not God the glory of our successes, even Philistines will rise up in judgment with us and condemn us. Shall Dagon have so great a place in their triumphs, and the true God...