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    1 Samuel 31

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    Saul asks his armour-bearer to kill him, is refused, and then the refusal acquires a grim echo: once Saul has fallen on his own sword, the armour-bearer does the same.

    The battle on Gilboavv. 1–7

    The Philistines drive Israel from the field on Mount Gilboa, killing Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua before their archers critically wound Saul. Saul fears capture and torture, but his armour-bearer is too frightened to strike him; Saul therefore uses his own sword, and the armour-bearer follows him into death. The chapter gives no reason for that second sword, only its stark timing. With Saul, his three sons, the armour-bearer, and all his men dead, the Israelites abandon their cities, which the Philistines occupy.

    A king made into a public trophyvv. 8–13

    The following day, the Philistines find Saul and his sons on Mount Gilboa and turn the fallen king into news fit for temples and crowds: his head is cut off, his armour stripped away, the armour placed in the temple of the Ashtoreths, and his body hung on the wall of Beth-shan. Then the men of Jabesh travel all night, retrieve the bodies, burn them at Jabesh, bury their bones beneath the tamarisk tree, and fast for seven days. The seven days are counted precisely, though the chapter leaves their reason unspoken.

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    1. 1 Sam 31:1Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

    2. 1 Sam 31:2The Philistines hotly pursued Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

    3. 1 Sam 31:3When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him critically.

    4. 1 Sam 31:4Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, or these uncircumcised men will come and run me through and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

    5. 1 Sam 31:5When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his own sword and died with him.

    6. 1 Sam 31:6So Saul, his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men died together that same day.

    7. 1 Sam 31:7When the Israelites along the valley and those on the other side of the Jordan saw that the army of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their cities and ran away. So the Philistines came and occupied their cities.

    8. 1 Sam 31:8The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

    9. 1 Sam 31:9They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among their people.

    10. 1 Sam 31:10They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.

    11. 1 Sam 31:11When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

    12. 1 Sam 31:12all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.

    13. 1 Sam 31:13Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

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    • 11 Chronicles 10:1–12Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
    • 11 Samuel 28:4The Philistines gathered together and camped at Shunem, while Saul gathered all Israel and camped at Gilboa.
    • 42 Samuel 1:9–10Then he begged me, ‘Stand over me and kill me, for agony has seized me, but my life still lingers.’
    • 4Judges 9:54He quickly called his armor-bearer, saying, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” So Abimelech’s armor-bearer ran his sword through him, and he died.
    • 42 Samuel 1:6“I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” he replied, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and the cavalry closing in on him.
    • 92 Samuel 1:20Tell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.
    • 10Judges 2:13for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
    • 10Joshua 17:11Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh was assigned Beth-shean, Ibleam, Dor (that is, Naphath), Endor, Taanach, and Megiddo, each with their surrounding settlements.
    • 122 Chronicles 16:14And he was buried in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the City of David. They laid him on a bier that was full of spices and various blended perfumes; then they made a great fire in his honor.
    • 132 Samuel 21:12–14he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.
    • 13Genesis 50:10When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.
    • 21 Chronicles 8:33Ner was the father of Kish, Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal.
    • 9Judges 16:23–24Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”
    • 12Jeremiah 34:5you will die in peace. As spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who preceded you, so people will burn spices for you and lament, ‘Alas, O master!’ For I Myself have spoken this word, declares the LORD.”
    • 12 Samuel 1:21O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
    • 21 Samuel 14:49Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua. His two daughters were named Merab (his firstborn) and Michal (his younger daughter).

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