1 Samuel 31:1

1 Samuel 31:2 →

Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.

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Interpretation

We cannot judge of the spiritual or eternal state of any by the manner of their death; for in that, there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked.

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This thought runs through 1 Samuel 31:1-5.

1 Samuel 31:1 1 Samuel 31:2 1 Samuel 31:3 1 Samuel 31:4 1 Samuel 31:5

Glossary

Mount Gilboa Place: Boiling spring, a mountain range, now Jebel Fukua’, memorable as the scene of Saul’s disastrous defeat by the Philistines. Here also his three sons were slain, and he himself died by his own hand. Modern identification: Mount Gilboa.