(5) And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.
There is a tradition, that this armour-bearer was Doeg, the Edomite: and that Saul advanced him to this honour, for his killing the priests of the Lord. But this is not certain. The Reader would do well to recollect, what David prophesied concerning this man in Psalms 52:1.