1 Samuel 31:1-6 NVIPT

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Samuel 31:1-13

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 Philistines would give them no quarter; and therefore they preferred being enrolled in the list of heroes, which forbids the historian from putting them in the catalogue of suicides. 1 Samuel 31:10 . The wall of Beth-shan; in the public street or principal place of the town. 2 Samuel 21:12. ... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 31:4

1 Samuel 31:4Saul took a sword and fell upon it.The death of SaulSaul’s life is a tragedy, and his death is the closing scene. Circumstances close round him, and press him to his doom. These circumstances know no remorse. They never pause for pity. The last foe that Saul meets is himself. His death was neither more nor less than suicide; the death of all deaths the most loathsome and despised of men; of all deaths the only one that men call cowardly. Yet to this Saul came, as if he had not been... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 31:6

1 Samuel 31:6So Saul died and his three sons.Death of Saul and JonathanThere is a proverb of the ancients, “Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.” Or, to express the same idea in the language of the Bible, “Be sure your sins will find you out.” This was the truth brought out so forcibly in the last days, and especially in this death scene, of Saul.1. Saul was what the Bible calls a “reprobate.” By that we do not mean that he was a man hurried forward to his doom by a blind fate, or... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 31:1

1Sa 31:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa. Ver. 1. Now the Philistines fought against Israel. ] As they had done, by times, all the days of Saul, whose endless turmoils - as one saith of our King John - kept his body still in action, his mind in passions, and his prowess in use. Now he is to fight his last, and to die for his transgressions, 1Ch 10:13 and, as it maybe feared, in his... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 31:2

1Sa 31:2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul’s sons. Ver. 2. And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul. ] Heb., Clave to him; sat close upon his skirts: fighting neither against small nor great, so much as against him, as their capital enemy, the destroyer of their country, that had slain many of them, as Judges 16:24 . And the Philistines slew Jonathan. ] That peerless prince, the glory of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 31:3

1Sa 31:3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. Ver. 3. And he was sore wounded of the archers. ] Sulpitius Severus saith he was so wounded that he fell from his horse. a But this he addeth of his own; for neither in the Scriptures nor yet in Josephus read we any such thing. a Saul equo delapsus. - Sac. Hist., lib. i. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 31:4

1Sa 31:4 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 sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. Ver. 4. Then said Saul unto his armourbearer. ] Whom the Rabbis constantly affirm to have been Doeg, the Edomite, whom Saul had once commanded to slay the Lord’s priests, and now to do the like to himself. “ Discite iustitiam... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 31:5

1Sa 31:5 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; as loath to outlive him, whom he had held the joy of his heart, the breath of his nostrils. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 31:6

1Sa 31:6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together. Ver. 6. And all his men, that same day together, ] i.e., His household servants, his bodyguard, allies, and a great part of his army; so that of him might be sung that of Virgil concerning Priamus, “ Hic finis Priami fatorum, hic exitus illum Sorte tulit Troiam incensam et prolapsa videntem Pergama, tot quondam populis terrisque superbum Regnatorem Aside: iacet ingens littore truncus,... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Samuel 31:1

the Philistines: 1 Samuel 28:1, 1 Samuel 28:15, 1 Samuel 29:1 fell down: 1 Samuel 12:25, 1 Chronicles 10:1-2 Kings : slain: Heb. wounded Gilboa: Eusebius and Jerome place this mountain six miles west from Bethshan, where was a large place called Gelbus. The natives still call it Djebel Gilbo. 1 Samuel 28:4, 2 Samuel 1:21 Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:17 - ye shall be 1 Samuel 7:13 - against 1 Samuel 28:19 - the Lord 2 Samuel 1:4 - the people 2 Samuel 1:6 - mount 2 Samuel 1:23 - they were 2... read more

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Samuel 31:1-13

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 31:4

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 31:6

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 31:1

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 31:2

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 31:3

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 31:4

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 31:5

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 31:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Samuel 31:1

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