1 Chronicles 10:13

1 Chronicles 10:13

11 And when all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,

12 all the ^avaliant men arose and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons; and they brought them to ^bJabesh, and buried their bones under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

13 So Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he had¹ committed against the Lord, ^abecause he did not keep the word of the Lord, and also because ^bhe consulted a medium for guidance.

14 But he did not inquire of the Lord; therefore He killed him, and ^aturned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the Lord—in having spared the king of the Amalekites and taken the flocks of the people as spoils [I Samuel 15:9], as well as in having consulted a pythoness [I Samuel 28:7]. Both of these acts were great sins—the first as a violation of God's express and positive command [I Samuel 15:3], and the second as contrary to a well-known statute of the kingdom (Leviticus 19:31).

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