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**the slaughter** . Compare [1 Samuel 30:17](../../../kjv/1-samuel/30/17)
**Ziklag** . Compare [1 Samuel 27:6](../../../kjv/1-samuel/27/6) .

**the third day** . See note on [1 Samuel 30:12](../../../kjv/1-samuel/30/12) . *behold. Figure of speech Asterismos.* App-6 .
**man** *. Hebrew. 'ish.* App-14 .

**he answered** . He thought he brought news which would be welcomed.

**behold . . . lo** . Figure of speech *Asterismos.* *App-6* *.*

**Amalekite** . Thus Saul was dishonoured by one whom his disobedience spared. Compare [1 Samuel 15:3](../../../kjv/1-samuel/15/3) and [Exodus 17:16](../../../kjv/exodus/17/16) .

**He said** . His whole story was a fabrication. See the facts in [1 Samuel 31:4](../../../kjv/1-samuel/31/4) , [1 Samuel 31:5](../../../kjv/1-samuel/31/5) .
**life** = soul. Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 .

**fallen** : i.e. upon his own sword ([1 Samuel 31:4](../../../kjv/1-samuel/31/4) ).

**men.** Hebrew. *'enosh.* App-14 ,

**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah* . App-4 .

**Thy blood** . Compare [2 Samuel 1:10](../../../kjv/2-samuel/1/10) .
**thy head** = thyself. Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Part). App-6 .

**children** = sons.
**the use of** . The *Ellipsis* is wrongly supplied. The word "Lamentation" should be repeated from [2 Samuel 1:17](../../../kjv/2-samuel/1/17) ; "The Bow" being the *subject* of the Lamentation ([2 Samuel 1:22](../../../kjv/2-samuel/1/22) ). the
**bow.** This is the name of the Lamentation, be-cause it is mentioned in [2 Samuel 1:22](../../../kjv/2-samuel/1/22) ; and it is what the tribe of Saul and Jonathan (Benjamin) was noted *for* (compare [1 Chronicles 8:40](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/8/40) ; 1Ch 12:2 . [2 Chronicles 14:8](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/14/8) ; [2 Chronicles 17:17](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/17/17) ). For a similar reason the scripture ([Exodus 3](../../../kjv/exodus/3) ) about "The Bush" is so called in [Mark 12:26](../../../kjv/mark/12/26) . [Luke 20:37](../../../kjv/luke/20/37) .
**behold** . Figure of speech *. Asterismos.* App-6 .
**written,** &c. In the Book of Jasher (or The Upright One) = " Thy hart, Israel, lies slain", &c.

**beauty** = gazelle. Symbolic of beauty and grace.

**The shield of Saul.** Omit the italics that follow, and supply instead "the weapon of one anointed with oil", the Hebrew *k e li (or keli?)* "weapons" being read instead of *b e ll* in the first edition of the *Hebrew Bible,* 1488, and the Syriac and Arabic Versions and Chaldee paraphrase.

**swifter . . . stronger** . Figure of speech *Hyperbole.* *App-6* *.*

**How,** &c. Render: "How [is it that] mighty ones have fallen, and weapons of war have perished".

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