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".