the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead Mindful of the debt of gratitude they owed to Saul for rescuing them from Nahash (ch. 11). The isolated round-topped hill on the south side of the Wady Yâbis, which has been conjecturally fixed upon as the site of Jabesh, is in full view of Beth-shan (Tristram, Land of Israel, p. 556). The distance over the hills, down into the Jordan valley, and up the Wady Jâlûdis not much under twenty miles.
Verse 1 Samuel 31:11. _WHEN THE INHABITANTS OF JABESH-GILEAD HEARD_] This act of the men of Jabesh-gilead was an act of gratitude due to Saul, who, at the very commencement of his reign, rescued them...
WHEN THE INHABITANTS OF JABESH-GILEAD HEARD ... - See 1 Samuel 11:1. This is a touching and rare example of national gratitude....
9. THE DEATH OF SAUL CHAPTER 31 _ 1. Saul wounded in battle (1 Samuel 31:1)_ 2. Saul a suicide (1 Samuel 31:4) 3. The victorious Philistines (1 Samuel 31:7) 4. The bodies recovered and bu
1 SAMUEL 31. BATTLE OF GILBOA._ Cf._ p. 285, and 2 Samuel 1:6 *. 1 SAMUEL 31:1. Israel was routed, Saul's sons slain, and he himself in danger of being taken prisoner. To avoid this he fell upon his...
TO. about....
AND WHEN THE INHABITANTS OF JABESH-GILEAD HEARD, &C.— _Beth-shan_ was a city in the tribe of Manasseh, not far from Jordan and the sea of Gennesareth, to which the men of Jabesh might march in a night...
A DIGEST OF CHAPTER 31 1 Samuel 31:1-6 _Saul's death._ Samuel had told Saul that he would die in battle. This came to pass as the armies of Israel and Philistia met in battle on Mt. Gilboa. Saul fel...
_Saul's Burial._ 1 Samuel 31:7-13 7 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...
_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 sit...
They thus showed their gratitude for former kindness: see 1 Samuel 11....
DEFEAT OF THE ISRAELITES AT MT. GILBOA. DEATH OF SAUL 6. And all his men] LXX omits....
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 31 SAUL AND HIS SONS DIE V1 The *Philistines fought against the *Israelites on the mountain of Gilboa. The *Israelites ran away and the *Phil...
THE INHABITANTS OF JABESH-GILEAD. — The memory of the splendid feat of arms of their young king Saul, when he gallantly rescued their city (1 Samuel 11:1) years before, when they were threatened with...
וַ יִּשְׁמְע֣וּ אֵלָ֔יו יֹשְׁבֵ֖י יָבֵ֣ישׁ גִּלְעָ֑ד...
CHAPTER XXXVI _ THE DEATH OF SAUL._ 1 Samuel 31:1. THE plain of Esdraelon, where the battle between Saul and the Philistines was fought, has been celebrated for many a deadly encounter, from the ver...
ONE BRAVE DEED ON A DARK DAY 1 Samuel 31:1 This defeat meant something more than a temporary reverse. It was symptomatic of national decay. Saul's reign had brought moral degeneracy to his people. Th...
This closing chapter in the first Book of Samuel is draped in sackcloth and ashes. It gives the account of the end of the career of one of the most disastrous failures on record in Biblical history....
And when the inhabitants of (e) Jabeshgilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul; (e) Whom he had delivered from their enemies, (1 Samuel 11:11)....
_Jabes, in gratitude for the deliverance which he had procured for them, chap. xi. 11. (Calmet) --- They are also deserving of praise for shewing mercy to the dead, as well as for their bravery. (Wort...
(11) And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul; (12) All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his...
We enter now on a portion of David's history sensibly different from what we have already had, which closed with the efforts of Jonathan to restore matters and to attach Saul to him at least openly. J...
Chapter 31 recounts the solemn death of Saul and of Jonathan also, closing, with the total discomfiture of Israel, this touching history. The whole account of Saul and his family, as raised up to with...
AND THE INHABITANTS OF JABESHGILEAD,.... Who lived on the other side Jordan, about eight miles from Bethshan, according to Fuller p: HEARD OF THAT WHICH THE PHILISTINES HAD DONE TO SAUL; not only tha...
_And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;_ Ver. 11. _And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead._] _Memores beneficii a Saule accepti,_ they rememb...
_The inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead_ They lived on the other side of Jordan; for the people on this side were fled. _All the valiant men arose, and went all night_ To avoid discovery. _And took the body...
1 Saul hauing lost his armie, and his sonnes slaine, he and his armour bearer kill themselues. 7 The Philistines possesse the forsaken townes of the Israelites. 8 They triumph ouer the dead carkeise...
Burial of Saul at Jabesh-Gilead....
And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead, the city in the country east of Jordan which had been saved from the Ammonites by Saul's timely intervention, 1 Samuel 11, HEARD OF THAT WHICH THE PHILISTINE...
The day has come for Saul to descend into battle and die. The Philistines fight against Israel and find no resistance. We know that Saul was totally demoralized and could only expect that his armies w...
OF THAT WHICH: Or, concerning him...
8-13 The Scripture makes no mention what became of the souls of Saul and his sons, after they were dead; but of their bodies only: secret things belong not to us. It is of little consequence by what...
JABESH-GILEAD, which was beyond Jordan; for the people on this side Jordan were fled from their cities, as was now said....
1 Samuel 31:11 inhabitants H3427 (H8802) Jabesh H3003 Gilead H1568 heard H8085 (H8799) Philistines H6430 done H6213
ONE SMALL VICTORY FOR ISRAEL (1 SAMUEL 31:11). It is a mistake to see this as a kind of appended note. In fact the subsection chiasmus demonstrates the centrality of what is being described here (a fa...
THE THOROUGH DEFEAT OF ISRAEL AND THE DEATH OF SAUL (1 SAMUEL 31:1 -2 SAMUEL 1:27). Having initially demonstrated how God's purposes are moving forward in David, the writer now describes the humiliati...
CONTENTS: Death of Saul and Jonathan. CHARACTERS: Saul, Jonathan, Abinadab, Melchi-shua. CONCLUSION: As men live, so will they die. Those are indeed in a deplorable condition, who, despairing of the...
1 Samuel 31:6. _And all his men;_ his body guard, brave men who would not survive the fall of their master. But in 1 Chronicles 10:6 it is said, all his house died together. They knew that the Philist...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 31:1 The army of Israel is completely defeated, Saul’s sons are killed, Saul kills himself to avoid capture, and the Philistines take over the region. ⇐
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 31:11 Saul had saved JABESH-GILEAD at the beginning of his reign (ch. 1 Samuel 11:1), which the men of the city remembered. They cross
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 31:9. “AND SENT.” Hebrew scholars here read _sent them, i.e._, the weapons and the head of Saul and probably those of his sons. 1 Samuel 31:10. “ASHTAROTH.” Th...
DEFEAT AND DEATH OF SAUL (1 Samuel 31:1.). EXPOSITION SAUL AND HIS SONS SLAIN (1 Samuel 31:1)....
Now the Philistines fought against Israel: the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa. And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and t...
1 Samuel 11:1; 2 Samuel 2:4...