1 Chronicles 10

1 Chronicles 10:1

1\ OW the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and fell down slain in Moitnt Gilboa. This.verse, and those that follow to ver. 13. have been explained upon 1 Sam. xxxi. where the same history is related; in the same words, and with very little difference. And it is repeated here, to make way for the history of David (which is mainly intended in the rest of this book), who, by Saul’s death, was advanced to the crown.

1 Chronicles 10:2

And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, andAbinadab, and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.

1 Chronicles 10:3

And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers.

1 Chronicles 10:4

*27ien said Saul to his armour-bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these xmcircumcised come and abuse me. But his armour-bearer would not, for he was sore afraid. So Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

1 Chronicles 10:5

And when his armour-bearer saw that Saul was dead, He fell likewise on the sword, and died.

1 Chronicles 10:6

So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together. That is, all that were present with him in the battle: and hisfamijyhad such a blow by their fall, that it never recovered itself. For though Ish-bosheth reigned over a part of the country, yet it was not in any splendour: such a deadly wound being given to the house of Saul, that it did not long survive him in the kingly authority.

1 Chronicles 10:7

And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, then they forsook their cities, and fled: and the Phi-