_THE ISRAELITES ARE OVERCOME BY THE PHILISTINES: SAUL AND HIS THREE
SONS PERISH: THE PHILISTINES FASTEN HIS BODY TO THE WALLS OF BETHSHAN:
VALIANT MEN FROM JABESH-GILEAD CARRY OFF THE BODIES OF SAUL A...
XXXI.
(1 Samuel 31:1) Battle of Mount Gilboa — Death of Saul and his three
Sons — Panic in Israel — The Philistines expose the King’s Body
on the Wall of Beth-shan — The Citizens of Jabesh-Gilead res...
INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 31
This chapter gives an account of the battle between the Philistines
and the Israelites, which had been preparing for, and the issue of it;
in which Saul, his three son...
_A.M. 2948. B.C. 1056._
Israel overthrown, and Saul, his three sons, his armour bearer, and
all his men slain, 1 Samuel 31:1. The Israelites forsake their cities,
1 Samuel 31:7. The camp plundered, a...
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...