1 Chronicles 10 - Introduction
_SAUL IS CONQUERED BY THE PHILISTINES, AND DIES: HIS THREE SONS ARE SLAIN: THE INHABITANTS OF JABESH-GILEAD BURY THEM. THE KINGDOM IS TRANSFERRED FROM SAUL TO DAVID._ _Before Christ 1056._... [ Continue Reading ]
_SAUL IS CONQUERED BY THE PHILISTINES, AND DIES: HIS THREE SONS ARE SLAIN: THE INHABITANTS OF JABESH-GILEAD BURY THEM. THE KINGDOM IS TRANSFERRED FROM SAUL TO DAVID._ _Before Christ 1056._... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL HIS HOUSE DIED TOGETHER— 1:e. All of his house or family who were with him that day. In 1 Samuel 31:6 it is _all his men._... [ Continue Reading ]
TO CARRY TIDINGS UNTO THEIR IDOLS— _That the tidings might be told in the temples of their idols._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO ENQUIRE OF IT— See the note on 1 Samuel 31:1. The two great offences of Saul, which are recapitulated in this verse, were, his sparing the Amalekites, and consulting the witch of Endor.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ENQUIRED NOT OF THE LORD— This seems to contradict what is said 1 Samuel 28:6. But the Jews and others reconcile the two passages by saying, that as he did not _persevere_ to inquire of God, nor inquire at all with a truly religious and faithful spirit, but went to a witch, it was just the same... [ Continue Reading ]