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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
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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...
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_and died with him_ Being answerable for the king's life he feared
punishment: or from a nobler motive of true fidelity, refused to
survive his master....
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THEN SAID SAUL UNTO HIS ARMOUR-BEARER— Saul and his armour-bearer
died by the same sword; that his armour-bearer died by his own sword,
is out of all doubt: the text expressly tells us so; and that Sa...
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Saul's Last Battle, 1 Samuel 31:1-13.
_Saul's Death._ 1 Samuel 31:1-6
Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled
from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount G...
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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...
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_THEN SAID SAUL UNTO HIS ARMOURBEARER, DRAW THY SWORD, AND THRUST ME
THROUGH THEREWITH; LEST THESE UNCIRCUMCISED COME AND THRUST ME
THROUGH, AND ABUSE ME. BUT HIS ARMOURBEARER WOULD NOT; FOR HE WAS SO...
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DEFEAT OF THE ISRAELITES AT MT. GILBOA. DEATH OF SAUL
6. And all his men] LXX omits....
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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...
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וַ יַּ֥רְא נֹשֵֽׂא ־כֵלָ֖יו כִּ֣י
מֵ֣ת שָׁא֑ו
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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...
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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...
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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....
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With him. Thus to avoid a little shame and temporal punishment, they
rushed into those which are inconceivably geat and eternal. (Haydock)
--- The Jews in vain attempt to excuse Saul, as they deem sui...
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(5) And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise
upon his sword, and died with him.
There is a tradition, that this armour-bearer was Doeg, the Edomite:
and that Saul advanced h...
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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...
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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...
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AND WHEN HIS ARMOURBEARER SAW THAT SAUL WAS DEAD,.... By his own
hands, and not by the hands of the Amalekite, which the armour bearer
would scarcely have suffered:
HE FELL LIKEWISE UPON HIS SWORD, A...
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_And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise
upon his sword, and died with him._
Ver. 5. _He fell likewise upon his sword._] By Saul's evil example,
and perhaps in love to him;...
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_He_ (his armour-bearer) _fell likewise upon his sword_ The same sword
on which Saul had fallen, which was the sword of the armour- bearer.
This will appear evident to any one that reads these two ver...
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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...
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And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise
upon his sword and died with him....
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DEATH OF SAUL AND HIS SONS...
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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...
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1-7 We cannot judge of the spiritual or eternal state of any by the
manner of their death; for in that, there is one event to the
righteous and to the wicked. Saul, when sorely wounded, and unable to...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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1 Samuel 31:5 armorbearer H5375 (H8802) H3627 saw H7200 (H8799) Saul
H7586 dead H4191 (H8804) fell...
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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...
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THE DEATH OF SAUL AND JONATHAN ON MOUNT GILBOA (1 SAMUEL 31:1).
It is noteworthy that in the description of the battle the emphasis is
not on the defeat of Israel, even though that is briefly describe...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
1 Samuel 31:1. “IN MOUNT GILBOA.” Most likely the actual battle
took place on the plain, and the Israelites sought refuge on the
mountain.
1 Samuel 31:3. “SORE WOUNDED....
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DEFEAT AND DEATH OF SAUL (1 Samuel 31:1.).
EXPOSITION
SAUL AND HIS SONS SLAIN (1 Samuel 31:1)....
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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...