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1 Chronicles

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Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa. See also: 1 Samuel 31:1-13 1 Chronicles 10:8 1 Samuel 28:4The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul. See also: Isaiah 57:1-2 1 Chronicles 9:39 1 Samuel 14:39-40The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers. See also: 1 Samuel 31:3-6 2 Samuel 1:4-10 Amos 2:14Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me.” But his armor bearer would not, for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell on it. See also: 1 Samuel 31:4 Acts 1:18 2 Samuel 17:23When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword and died. So Saul died with his three sons; and all his house died together. See also: Ecclesiastes 9:1-2 1 Samuel 12:25 Hosea 13:10-11When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them. See also: 1 Samuel 31:7 1 Samuel 13:6 Leviticus 26:36On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. See also: 1 Samuel 31:8 2 Chronicles 20:25 2 Kings 3:23They stripped him and took his head and his armor, then sent into the land of the Philistines all around to carry the news to their idols and to the people. See also: 2 Samuel 1:20 1 Samuel 31:9-10 Matthew 14:11They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon. See also: 1 Samuel 31:10 1 Samuel 5:2-7When all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul, See also: 2 Samuel 2:4-7 1 Samuel 11:1-11 1 Samuel 31:11-13all the valiant men arose and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. See also: 2 Samuel 3:35 2 Samuel 21:12-14 Genesis 50:10So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the LORD, because of the LORD’s word, which he didn’t keep, and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire, See also: Leviticus 20:6 Leviticus 19:31 1 Samuel 15:23and didn’t inquire of the LORD. Therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse. See also: 1 Samuel 15:28 1 Samuel 13:14 1 Samuel 16:1

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)8 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

1 Chronicles 10:1

Ver. 1. Now. Sept. "and." H. --- This has no connexion with what goes before. C.

--- This history is given more at large, 1 K. xxxi. and 2 K. i. M.

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1 Chronicles 10:3

Ver. 3. Reached: lit. "found." H. --- Heb. "attacked him, and he feared the archers. He was not, at least, mortally wounded, when he took the desperate resolution to destroy himself, through fear and consternation. C. Yet the original will admit the sense of the Vulg. and Saul might have received some wounds. Sept. "Archers found him with bows, and in labours, and he laboured on account of (or to avoid) the bows." H.

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1 Chronicles 10:4

Ver. 4. Fear and reverence for his master, (C.) as well as concern for his own safety. H.

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1 Chronicles 10:6

Ver. 6. Fell. Heb. "died." C. --- But, though the house of Saul was fallen from its former glory, on this fatal day, when so many of his courtiers perished; yet he left Isboseth to bewail his fate, (H.) and some others who were not of age to go to battle. C.

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1 Chronicles 10:9

Ver. 9. To be. Heb. "to carry tidings to their idols, (sorrows) and to the people."

They exposed the spoils in the temples, and gave thanks to their idols for the victory.

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1 Chronicles 10:10

Ver. 10. Head, while his body was hung on the walls of Bethsan. 1 K. xxxi. 10.

C. --- The temple of Dagon was contiguous to the wall. D.

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1 Chronicles 10:12

Ver. 12. Oak, well known at Jabes. Elsewhere the word is translated, the grove.

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1 Chronicles 10:13

Ver. 13. For. Sept. "in his iniquities." H. --- See 1 K. xiii. 9. and xv. 23. Saul offered sacrifice unlawfully, and spared some of the Amalecites. W.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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