{"id":407,"date":"2012-02-25T13:58:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T21:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/OTS\/?p=407"},"modified":"2014-04-02T05:21:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:21:48","slug":"1-samuel-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/02\/25\/1-samuel-31\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Samuel 31"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 Samuel 31<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

This is a short chapter highlighting the death of Saul and his sons on Mount Gilboa<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>. A parallel passage is 1 Chronicles 10.1-14<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0(cf. the study on 1 Chronicles 10<\/a>). A note on why the two books of the Chronicles were written. They parallel, for the most part, 1 and 2 Samuel. However, they are written after the return from the exile in Babylon as a reminder of what is necessary for success in the kingdom.<\/p>\n

This is a gruesome death. Saul was pierced with an arrow. He knew he was to die. He asked his armor-bearer to finish the deed lest he be tortured (Judges 9.54<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>). He said he would not do it because his chief job was to ensure the king remained alive. Saul killed himself. The armor-bearer followed suit. This will play big in 2 Samuel 1. That day Saul’s sons died with him.<\/p>\n

The Philistines found their bodies and triumphed throughout the land. They hung the bodies on a wall in Beth-Shan<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> (Judges 1.27<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>). Beth-Shan is about sixteen miles from what is known as the Sea of Galilee<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0today (Sea of Chinnereth). It was later renamed Scythopolis\u00a0which roughly translates to “city of barbarism” or “sin city.” The men of Israel in Jabesh-Gilead found out, they stole the bodies and buried them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a short chapter highlighting the death of Saul and his sons on Mount Gilboa. A parallel passage is 1 Chronicles 10.1-14. A note on why the two books of the Chronicles were written. They parallel, for the most part, 1 and 2 Samuel. However, they are written after the return from the exile in Babylon as a reminder of what is necessary for success in the kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,5],"tags":[150,36,151,24,89,94],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-1-samuel","category-daily-studies","tag-chronicles","tag-david","tag-death","tag-god","tag-king","tag-saul","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}