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1 Chronicles 10:1
Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The chronicler records the Battle of Gilboa where Israel’s forces confronted the Philistines and suffered a rout. The words — וַ/יָּ֑נָס (va/i.Ya.nos) = and/ he fled, capturing the individual retreat that compounded Israel’s collective collapse. The thread — This event is paralleled in 1 Samuel 31:1 and framed by the Philistine camp at Shunem in 1 Samuel 28:4 and the discovery of the fallen bodies in 1 Chronicles 10:8. Why it lands — The text demands recognition that military defeat and mass casualty are recorded without embellishment, leaving the reader to confront the concrete outcome of the engagement.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
Cross-references
- 1 Samuel 31:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
- 1 Chronicles 10:8 The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
- 1 Samuel 28:4 The Philistines gathered together and camped at Shunem, while Saul gathered all Israel and camped at Gilboa.
- 2 Samuel 1:6 “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” he replied, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and the cavalry closing in on him.
- 2 Samuel 1:21 O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
- 1 Samuel 28:1 Now in those days the Philistines gathered their forces for warfare against Israel. So Achish said to David, “You must understand that you and your men are to go out to battle with me.”
- 1 Samuel 29:1 Now the Philistines brought all their forces together at Aphek, while Israel camped by the spring in Jezreel.
- 2 Samuel 21:12 he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.