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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Samuel 1 - Introduction

A young man brings tidings to David, that Saul and his sons are fallen and dead; and that he himself had slain Saul at his request: David commands the young man to be put to death. His lamentation over Saul and Jonathan.

Before Christ 1055.

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See also 2 Samuel 1 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART ONE DAVID MADE KING OF ISRAEL 2 Samuel 1:1 to 2 Samuel 5:25 A DIGEST OF CHAPTER 1 2 Samuel 1:1-12 _The Amalekite's account of Saul's death._ David was in Ziklag when he heard of Saul

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    At the moment when this book opens, the events narrated in 1 Samuel 31 were not known to David. At the time of the fatal battle between Saul and the Philistines, David had been engaged in his successf...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO SECOND SAMUEL 1 This chapter contains an account of the death of Saul and Jonathan, as related to David by an Amalekite, 2 Samuel 1:1; of the sorrow he and his men were filled with at...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A.M. 2948. B.C. 1056._ David receives an account of the death of Saul and Jonathan, 2 Samuel 1:1. He mourns over them, 2Sa 1:11, 2 Samuel 1:12. Puts the man to death who boasted he had killed Saul,...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    [DAUID HEARETH OF SAULS DEATH.] 1 The Amalekite, who brought tidings of the ouerthrow, and accused himselfe of Sauls death, is slaine. 17 Dauid lamenteth Saul and Ionathan with a song. 1 NOW it cam...

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