--- title: "1 Samuel 31 - Study King James Bible" description: "Read 1 Samuel 31 commentary. 1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa. 2 And the Philis" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/1-samuel/31" --- [ Read](/kjv/1-samuel/31)[ Commentary](/study/1-samuel/31)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/1-samuel/31) Audio 1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.* 2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, Saul’s sons. 3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.** 4 Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.* 5 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him. 6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together. 7 ¶ And when the men of Israel that *were* on the other side of the valley, and *they* that *were* on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them. 8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa. 9 And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish *it in* the house of their idols, and among the people. 10 And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. 11 ¶ And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;* 12 All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there. 13 And they took their bones, and buried *them* under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days. [1 Samuel 30](/study/1-samuel/30) [2 Samuel 1](/study/2-samuel/1) ## Commentary To verse 1 **the Philistines:** [1 Samuel 28:1](/kjv/1-samuel/28/1), [1 Samuel 28:15](/kjv/1-samuel/28/15), [1 Samuel 29:1](/kjv/1-samuel/29/1) **fell down:** [1 Samuel 12:25](/kjv/1-samuel/12/25), [1 Chronicles 10:1-12](/kjv/1-chronicles/10/1-12) **slain:** Heb. wounded **Gilboa:** Eusebius and Jerome place this mountain six miles west from Bethshan, where was a large place called Gelbus. The natives still call it Djebel Gilbo. [1 Samuel 28:4](/kjv/1-samuel/28/4), [2 Samuel 1:21](/kjv/2-samuel/1/21) **Reciprocal:** [Leviticus 26:17](/kjv/leviticus/26/17) - ye shall be [1 Samuel 7:13](/kjv/1-samuel/7/13) - against [1 Samuel 28:19](/kjv/1-samuel/28/19) - the Lord [2 Samuel 1:4](/kjv/2-samuel/1/4) - the people [2 Samuel 1:6](/kjv/2-samuel/1/6) - mount [2 Samuel 1:23](/kjv/2-samuel/1/23) - they were [2 Samuel 4:4](/kjv/2-samuel/4/4) - when the tidings [2 Samuel 21:12](/kjv/2-samuel/21/12) - in Gilboa [1 Chronicles 13:2](/kjv/1-chronicles/13/2) - left [1 Chronicles 17:8](/kjv/1-chronicles/17/8) - have cut off [Psalms 44:10](/kjv/psalms/44/10) - Thou [Psalms 60:1](/kjv/psalms/60/1) - scattered [Psalms 63:10](/kjv/psalms/63/10) - They shall fall [Psalms 75:3](/kjv/psalms/75/3) - earth [Psalms 78:9](/kjv/psalms/78/9) - The children [Psalms 141:6](/kjv/psalms/141/6) - When their judges [Proverbs 24:22](/kjv/proverbs/24/22) - their [Hosea 13:11](/kjv/hosea/13/11) - *General* ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/1-samuel/31#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","width":672,"height":448,"caption":"Real Bible Believers"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/1-samuel/31#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/1-samuel/31","name":"1 Samuel 31 - Study King James Bible","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/1-samuel/31#primaryimage"},"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Read 1 Samuel 31 commentary. 1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa. 2 And the Philis","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/1-samuel/31#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/1-samuel/31"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/1-samuel/31#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","name":"Study Bible"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/1-samuel","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/1-samuel","name":"1 Samuel"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/1-samuel/31","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/1-samuel/31","name":"31"}}]},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","width":512,"height":512},"logo":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo"},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/RBiblebeliever","https://www.facebook.com/RBibleBelievers"]}]} ```