John Gill's Exposition on 1 Samuel 31:6

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, etc.] Only with this difference, his three sons died honourably in the field of battle, but he and his armourbearer destroyed themselves. Josephus says f569 he reigned eighteen years in the life of Samuel, and after his death twenty two years, which make the forty years the apostle ascribes to him, (<441321>Acts 13:21); Eupolemus f570, an Heathen writer, makes him to reign twenty one years; but of the years of his reign, both before and after the death of Samuel, chronologers are not agreed, (see <092501>1 Samuel 25:1); and (see Gill on “<441321>Acts 13:21”); and all his men that same day together; not all the soldiers in his army; for many of them fled and escaped, and even Abner the general of the army, but his household servants, or those that were near his person, his bodyguards.

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