1 Chronicles 10:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon. ”

1 Chronicles 10:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of (a) Dagon. (a) Which was the idol of the Philistines, and from the belly downward had the form of a fish, a...
1 Chronicles 10:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

PART II (1 Chronicles 10-29). The Reign of David. 1 Chronicles 10:1-14 . The Death of Saul (see notes on 1 Samuel 31:1-13 ). 1 Chronicles 10:10 . the house of their gods: altered purposely...
1 Chronicles 10:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

gods. Ashtaroth. Compare 1 Samuel 31:10 . his head. This is additional to 1 Samuel 31:10 . "His body", there, is additional to this passage. The two books thus independent and complementary.
1 Chronicles 10:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
1 Chronicles 10:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon. Put his armour in the house of their gods. It was common among the pagan to vow to a national...
1 Chronicles 10:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Saul's Overthrow and Death This chapter is abbreviated from 1 Samuel 31:1-13 , but supplements it by statements that Saul's head was fastened in the temple of Dagon, and by a brief explanation of...
1 Chronicles 10:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

In the house of their gods. — Or god, as LXX. Samuel, “house of Ashtaroth,” which the chronicler or his source paraphrases, perhaps from a repugnance to mentioning the idol’s name. Ashtoreth had a...
1 Chronicles 10:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here in sublime and graphic language is recounted the story of the death of the king chosen by men. It is a terrible picture of a man of magnificent capability going down to utter ruin. Routed by his...
1 Chronicles 10:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What an humbling lesson is here read to great men! The body of Saul, the first king of Israel, and who had slain his thousands, as the Song of Israel proclaimed, to be thus made a spectacle of derisi...
1 Chronicles 10:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Samuel 31:10
1 Chronicles 10:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon. Ver. 10. And fastened his head. ] In way of abuse and mockage; so, that which Saul feared came u...
1 Chronicles 10:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

In the temple of Dagon If we give not God the glory of our successes, even Philistines will rise up in judgment with us, and condemn us. Shall Dagon have so great a place in their triumphs, and the...
1 Chronicles 10:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa. 9 And when they had stripped him, they took his...
1 Chronicles 10:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

And his body severed from his head to the wall of Beth-shan, 1 Samuel 31:10 .
1 Chronicles 10:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] The genealogical introduction now closed. Narrative in twenty Chapter s describes the reign of David. The first 12 verses in this chapter a second edition of 1 Samuel 31 , with vari...
1 Chronicles 10:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Chronicles 10:2 . The Philistines followed hard after Saul. Here are no chronicles from Samuel to Saul's death, about fifty years. REFLECTIONS. Samuel, and other prophets, had kept records...
1 Chronicles 10:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul. A good beginning with a bad ending Many men begin with influential parentage, social stati...
1 Chronicles 10:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION It is evident that the compiler of the Chronicles intended its history proper to begin substantially with the reign of David. Strictly, however, it opens with the last mournful chapte...
1 Chronicles 10:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Triumph of the Philistines
1 Chronicles 10:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 31:10 ; 1 Samuel 5:2-7
1 Chronicles 10:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Temple of Dagon — If we give not God the glory of our successes, even Philistines will rise up in judgment with us and condemn us. Shall Dagon have so great a place in their triumphs, and the true...

1 Chronicles 10:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 Chronicles 10:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Chronicles 10:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Chronicles 10:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Chronicles 10:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Chronicles 10:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Chronicles 10:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Chronicles 10:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Chronicles 10:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Chronicles 10:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Chronicles 10:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Chronicles 10:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Chronicles 10:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Chronicles 10:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Chronicles 10:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Chronicles 10:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Chronicles 10:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Chronicles 10:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Chronicles 10:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Chronicles 10:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 10:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes