Holy Scripture

1 Samuel 31:7

A church father on this verse
“But the men of Israel saw, etc. Seeing, however, certain unlearned and ignorant of the true remedies of humility and the salutary washing of baptism, the learned in Judea, their own teachers, being defeated in the spiritual contest by the triumph of sin, and also the not small multitude of the common people, who had b…”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Samuel

Source: Septuagint

Original

7And the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those beyond Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead; and they leave their cities and flee: and the Philistines come and dwell in them.

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5And his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, and he fell also himself upon his sword, and died with him.

6So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, in that day together.

— 1 Samuel 31:7 —

8And it came to pass on the morrow that the Philistines come to strip the dead, and they find Saul and his three sons fallen on the mountains of Gilboa.

9And they turned him, and stripped off his armor, and sent it into the land of the Philistines, sending round glad tidings to their idols and to the people.

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