Bible Strands
1 Chronicles 10:6
So Saul died together with his three sons and all his house.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator reports the immediate aftermath of the battle, recording the final outcome for King Saul and his lineage.
The words — יַחְדָּ֥ו (yach.Dav) = together and מֵֽתוּ (Me.tu) = they died form a compound statement of simultaneous death.
The thread — This account of royal demise connects to warnings about persistent evil bringing sweeping judgment (1 Samuel 12:25), the principle that outcomes rest in divine hands (Ecclesiastes 9:1), and the futile pursuit of human rulers for salvation (Hosea 13:10).
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that leadership failure and military defeat result in complete familial and national collapse, leaving the reader to trace the historical consequences of covenant abandonment.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together.
Cross-references
- 1 Samuel 12:25 But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”
- Ecclesiastes 9:1 So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
- Hosea 13:10 Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?
- 1 Samuel 4:10 So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great—thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.
- 1 Samuel 4:18 As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.