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1 Samuel 31:1 open_in_new
men. Hebrew. 'enosh.App-14.
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1 Samuel 31:2 open_in_new
Abinadab. Called Ishui (1 Samuel 14:49).
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1 Samuel 31:3 open_in_new
sore wounded. in sore anguish.
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1 Samuel 31:4 open_in_new
abuse. insult.
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1 Samuel 31:6 open_in_new
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".
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1 Samuel 31:10 open_in_new
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).
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1 Samuel 31:11 open_in_new
to. about.
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1 Samuel 31:12 open_in_new
men. Hebrew. 'ish. App-14.