1 Samuel 31

1 Samuel 31:1

men. Hebrew. ’enosh. App-14.

1 Samuel 31:2

Abinadab. Called Ishui (1 Samuel 14:49).

1 Samuel 31:3

sore wounded = in sore anguish.

1 Samuel 31:4

abuse = insult.

1 Samuel 31:6

So Saul died. Compare 1 Chronicles 10:13, 1 Chronicles 10:14. Here, history from human standpoint; in Chronicles, God’s standpoint, and reasons of the history. See notes on 1 Chronicles 10:13, and App-55. If Saul was thirty years of age when anointed, he would now be seventy; and Jonathan fifty-three or fifty-four. See note on 1 Samuel 13:1.

and. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Syriac, and Vulgate, read “yea, and”.

1 Samuel 31:10

his body. This is additional to 1 Chronicles 10:10; and “his head”, there, is additional to 1 Samuel 31:10. The two books and accounts are independent, supplementary, and complementary by Figure of speech Hysteresis (App-6). See App-55.

Beth-shan. It had remained Canaanite, and therefore friendly to Philistines (Judges 1:27).

1 Samuel 31:11

to = about.

1 Samuel 31:12

men. Hebrew. ’ish. App-14.