1 Samuel 28:4

Shunem.

Jos 19:18; 2Ki 4:8

Gilboa.

31:1; 2Sa 1:6,21; 21:12

1 Samuel 31:1

1 Saul, having lost his army, and his sons slain, he and his armour-bearer kill themselves.

7 The Philistines possess the forsaken towns of the Israelites.

8 They triumph over the dead carcases.

11 They of Jabesh-gilead recovering the dead bodies by night, burn them at Jabesh, and mournfully bury their bones.

the Philistines.

28:1,15; 29:1

fell down.

12:25; 1Ch 10:1-12

slain. Heb. wounded. Gilboa.Eusebius and Jerome place this mountain six miles west from Bethshan, where was a large place called Gelbus. The natives still call it Djebel Gilbo.

28:4; 2Sa 1:21

2 Samuel 1:21

mountains.

1Sa 31:1; 1Ch 10:1,8

no dew.

Jud 5:23; Job 3:3-10; Isa 5:6; Jer 20:14-16

offerings.

Joe 1:9; 2:14

not.Instead of {belee,} "not," we should probably, with Dr. Delaney and others, read {keley,} "weapons," as it is found on one MS. and in the first edition of the Hebrew Bible, printed at Soncini, 1488: "the shield of Saul; the weapons of the anointed with oil."

anointed.

1Sa 10:1; Isa 21:5
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