Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Samuel 31

1 Samuel 31:1

MEN. Hebrew. _'enosh.App-14._... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Samuel 31:2

ABINADAB. Called Ishui (1 Samuel 14:49).... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Samuel 31:3

SORE WOUNDED. in sore anguish.... [ Continue Reading ]

SO SAUL DIED. Compare 1 Chronicles 10:13; 1 Chronicles 10:14. Here, history from human standpoint; in Chronicles, God's standpoint, and reasons of the history. See notes on 1 Chronicles 10:13, and App-55. If Saul was thirty years of age when anointed, he would now be seventy; and Jonathan fifty-thre... [ Continue Reading ]

1 Samuel 31:10

HIS BODY. This is additional to 1 Chronicles 10:10. and "his head", there, is additional to 1 Samuel 31:10. The two books and accounts are independent, supplementary, and complementary by Figure of speech _Hysteresis_ (App-6). See App-55. BETH-SHAN. It had remained Canaanite, and therefore friendly... [ Continue Reading ]