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1 Chronicles 10:7

1 Chronicles 10:7
And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, then they forsook their cities, and fled: and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

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Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

1 Chronicles 10:1-7

This account of Saul's death is the same with that which we had, Sa1 31:1, etc. We need not repeat the exposition of it. Only let us observe, 1. Princes sin and the people suffer for it. It was a bad…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

thatwere in the valley The "valley of Jezreel" (Hos 1:5), called in later times the "plain of Esdrelon" (Esdraelon) is meant. Even those who lived east of Jordan took to flight; 1Sa 31:7.

forsook…