Teks -- 1 Samuel 31:6 (NET)

31:6 So Saul, his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men died together that day.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: 1Sa 31:6 - So Saul died

(see on 1Ch 10:13; Hos 13:11).

JFB: 1Sa 31:6 - and his three sons

The influence of a directing Providence is evidently to be traced in permitting the death of Saul's three eldest and most energetic sons, particularly that of Jonathan, for whom, had he survived his father, a strong party would undoubtedly have risen and thus obstructed the path of David to the throne.

JFB: 1Sa 31:6 - and all his men, that same day together

His servants or bodyguard (1Ch 10:6).

Clarke: 1Sa 31:6 - And all his men

And all his men - Probably meaning those of his troops which were his life or body guards: as to the bulk of the army, it fled at the commencement of the battle, 1Sa 31:1.

Defender: 1Sa 31:6 - Saul died

There is a superficial conflict between this account and that of 2Sa 1:2-10, where a young Amalekite in Saul's army claimed to have slain Saul. Although there is a possibility that he had fabricated the story, hoping thereby to ingratiate himself with David, it is more likely that Saul's life continued in him for a while even after he "took a sword, and fell upon it" (1Sa 31:4), and that he did indeed request the Amalekite to slay him as he lay dying. In any case, David was not pleased. He himself had twice refused to slay "the Lord'S anointed" when he had the opportunity, and he would not condone this action. The young Amalekite, therefore, paid with his life (2Sa 1:15, 2Sa 1:16)."

TSK: 1Sa 31:6

1Sa 4:10, 1Sa 4:11, 1Sa 11:15, 1Sa 12:17, 1Sa 12:25, 1Sa 28:19; 1Ch 10:6; Ecc 9:1, Ecc 9:2; Hos 13:10, Hos 13:11

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Haydock: 1Sa 31:6 - His men

His men. 1 Paralipomenon x. 6., his house fell together. The hopes of his family were at an end, (Haydock) though Isboseth, Abner, and some few survived him, (Menochius) who had fled, (Calmet) or had not been in the engagement. (Haydock)

Gill: 1Sa 31:6 - So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer // and all his men that same day together

So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer,.... Only with this difference, his three sons died honourably in the field of battle, but he and his armourbearer destroyed themselves. Josephus says ^e 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, Act 13:21; Eupolemus ^f, 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 1Sa 25:1; and See Gill on Act 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.