Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 Samuel 31:13
And they took their bones, and buried [them] under a tree at Jabesh, and (f) fasted seven days.
(f) According to the custom of mourners.
And they took their bones, and buried [them] under a tree at Jabesh, and (f) fasted seven days.
(f) According to the custom of mourners.
Verse 1 Samuel 31:13. _AND FASTED SEVEN DAYS._] To testify their sincere regret for his unfortunate death, and the public calamity that had fallen upon the land. THUS ends the troublesome, and I had...
UNDER A TREE - Rather, “Under the tamarisk,” a well-known tree at Jabesh which was standing when this narrative was written. THEY FASTED SEVEN DAYS - In imitation of the mourning for Jacob (marginal...
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...
The burial of Saul and his Sons 9. _they cut off his head_ The Anointed of Jehovah fares no better than the uncircumcised Goliath, now that God has forsaken him. _to publish it_ TO PUBLISH THE GOOD...
_under a tree_ UNDER THE TAMARISK, some well-known tree at Jabesh. Chron. reads "under the terebinth," (_êlah_). David removed the bones to the family sepulchre at Zelah (2 Samuel 21:12-14). _fasted s...
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 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, wh...
DEFEAT OF THE ISRAELITES AT MT. GILBOA. DEATH OF SAUL 6. And all his men] LXX omits....
UNDER A TREE] RV 'under the tamarisk tree.' It was evidently some well-known tree: cp. Genesis 35:4; Judges 4:5....
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...
A TREE IN JABESH. — A tree, that is “the well-known” tamarisk (_êshel_). For Saul’s love for trees see as an instance 1 Samuel 22:6. The men of Jabesh-Gilead well remembered this peculiar fancy of the...
וַ יִּקְחוּ֙ אֶת ־עַצְמֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם וַ יִּקְבְּר֥וּ...
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....
Wood. 1 Paralipomenon x. 12., under the oak. --- Days, at their own option. David fasted one day, (Calmet) as he did for Abner. (Salien) --- There was no obligation of mourning for the kings, though i...
(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...
REFLECTIONS PAUSE, Reader! once more over the sad view of Saul's history, and as thou hast been called upon to mark his progress in sin, and the ripening of his mind in iniquity; here behold, in self-...
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 THEY TOOK THEIR BONES, AND BURIED [THEM] UNDER A TREE AT JABESH,.... For though they burned the bodies, yet so as to preserve the bones; and these, together with the ashes of the parts burnt, they...
And they took their bones, and buried [them] under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days. Ver. 13. _And they took their bones._] Half calcinated. _ And buried them under a tree._] _Sub ulmo,_ some...
_And fasted seven days_ To testify their sorrow for the loss of Saul, and of the people of God; and to entreat God's favour to prevent the utter extinction of his people. But we must not understand th...
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...
And they took their bones, the charred remains after the flesh had burned off, AND BURIED THEM UNDER A TREE, a well-known tamarisk, AT JABESH, AND FASTED SEVEN DAYS, in deep mourning over the death of...
Burial of Saul at Jabesh-Gilead....
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...
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...
To testify their sorrow for the public loss of Saul, and of the people of God; and to entreat God's favour to prevent the utter extinction of his people. But you must not understand this word of fasti...
1 Samuel 31:13 took H3947 (H8799) bones H6106 buried H6912 (H8799) tree H815 Jabesh H3003 fasted H6684 ...
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...
2 Samuel 2:4; 2 Samuel 2:5; 2 Samuel 21:12; Genesis 35:8; Genesis 50:
Fasted — To testify their sorrow for the loss of Saul, and of the people of God; and to intreat God's favour to prevent the utter extinction of his people. But you must not understand this word of fas...