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**1 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 10**
Saul’s overthrow and death, [1 Chronicles 10:1-7](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/10/1-7).
The Philistines triumph over Saul, [1 Chronicles 10:8-10](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/10/8-10).
The kindness of Jabesh-gilead towards Saul and his sons: his sin, [1 Chronicles 10:11-14](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/10/11-14).

Of this and the following verses till [1 Chronicles 10:13](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/10/13), see my notes on [1 Samuel 31](../../../kjv/1-samuel/31), where we have the same thing expressed almost in thee same words.

**All his house,**i.e. all his children, to wit, then present with him, namely,
**his three sons,**as it is expressed, [1 Samuel 31:6](../../../kjv/1-samuel/31/6). For it is evident that Ish-bosheth and Mephibosheth were not slain. But nothing is more common in Scripture and all authors, than to understand *all* of a great and most considerable part.

**In the valley;**which was beneath Mount Gilboa, where the fight was, [1 Chronicles 10:1](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/10/1).

And his body severed from his head to the wall of Beth-shan, [1 Samuel 31:10](../../../kjv/1-samuel/31/10).

To wit, every day till evening, after the manner of the Jewish fasts.

**Saul died for his transgression:** the sense is, Wonder not that Saul fell by the hands of the Philistines, who were armed against him by his own sin and by God’s vengeance for it.
**Against the word of the Lord;**against God’s express, and plain, and positive command; which is a great aggravation of any sin.
**For asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit;**which also was contrary to a manifest command, [Leviticus 19:31](../../../kjv/leviticus/19/31), and moreover, contrary to his own conscience, which was so fully convinced hereof, that he had endeavoured the utter extirpation of all such persons, in pursuance of God’s law. See [1 Samuel 28:9](../../../kjv/1-samuel/28/9).
**To inquire of it,**concerning the event of the approaching battle.

**Inquired not of the Lord.**
**Object.** Saul inquired of the Lord, [1 Samuel 28:6](../../../kjv/1-samuel/28/6).
**Answ.** He did so, but not in a right manner, not humbly and penitently, not diligently and importunately, not patiently and perseveringly; but when God would not answer him speedily, he gives it over, and goes from God to the devil. Compare [1 Samuel 14:18](../../../kjv/1-samuel/14/18),[1 Samuel 14:19](../../../kjv/1-samuel/14/19). Such an inconsiderable and trifling inquiry as Saul made, is justly accounted to be no inquiry at all; as they are said *not to eat the Lord’s supper*, [1 Corinthians 11:20](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/11/20), who did eat it in a sinful and irregular manner.

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