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Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Chronicles 10:8
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Commentary on the Old Testament
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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On the following day the Philistines, in their search among the fallen, found and plundered the bodies of Saul and of his sons, and sent the head and the armour of Saul round about the land of the Philistines, to proclaim the news of their victory to their people and their gods. That for this purpose they cut off Saul's head from the trunk, is, as being a matter of course, not specially mentioned. In regard to the other discrepancies between the two texts, both in Ch1 10:8-10 and in the account of the burial of Saul and of his sons by valiant men of Jabesh, Ch1 10:11, Ch1 10:12, cf. the commentary on Sa1 31:8-13. In the reflection on Saul's death, Ch1 10:13 and Ch1 10:14, a double transgression against the Lord on Saul's part is mentioned: first, the מעל (on the meaning of this word, vide on Lev 5:15) of not observing the word of Jahve, which refers to the transgression of the divine command made known to him by the prophet Samuel, Sa1 13:8. (cf. with Ch1 10:8), and Sa1 15:2-3, Sa1 15:11, cf. Sa1 28:18; and second, his inquiring of the אוב, the summoner of the dead (vide on Lev 19:31), לדרושׁ, i.e., to receive an oracle (cf. in reference to both word and thing, Sa1 28:7). 1 Chronicles 10:14
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