Глава 31
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Defeat of the Jews by the Philistines. Death of Saul and his sons.
1 Samuel 31:1. The Philistines fought with the Israelites, and the men of Israel fled from the Philistines and fell defeated on Mount Gilboa.
See note. to 1 Samuel 29:1. "And they fell slain on mount Gilboa". Crushed in the valley, the Jews rushed to their previous positions, but it was too late: a wave of Philistines, pouring from the sloping hill of Aphek, drove them and struck them mercilessly.
1 Samuel 31:7. The Israelites who lived on the side of the valley and beyond the Jordan, seeing that the people of Israel fled and that Saul and his sons died, left their cities and fled, and the Philistines came and settled in them.
“On the side of the valley” of Ezdrilonskaya.
1 Samuel 31:10. and they placed his weapons in the church of Asherah, and hung his body on the wall of Beth-san.
Beth-san - southeast of Jezreel, towards the Jordan River.
1 Samuel 31:11. And the inhabitants of Jabez-gilead heard how the Philistines had dealt with Saul,
Jabez Gilead - in the middle part of eastern Transjordan.
1 Samuel 31:12. and all the mighty men arose, and walked all the night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shana, and came to Jabesh, and burned them there;
1 Samuel 31:13. and they took their bones and buried them under an oak tree in Jabez, and fasted seven days.
“And all the people rose up... and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons... and buried them” - in gratitude for the liberation of their city by Saul from the raid of the Ammonite king Nahash (1 Sam. 11:1).
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