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1 Chronicles 10:2

in 1 Chronicles 10

The Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And the Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.

KJV

And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi–shua, the sons of Saul.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 10

Commentary

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This site's exposition

followed hard after Saul

on 1 Chronicles 10:2-3

Jonathan falls with his brothers Abinadab and Malchishua before the battle reaches Saul himself, the same order 1 Samuel 31:2 already gives in the exposition built there. Chronicles needs from these two verses only the bare fact: the covenant friend who might have inherited the throne dies with his father's army. The archers wound Saul next, setting up the request that follows in verse four.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

Vayyadbequ Pelishtim (=The Philistines pursued and caught up to). This is equivalent to vayyadbiqu.
Radak: Provence, 1160–1235 · Radak on I Chronicles 10:2:1, via Sefaria, The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007
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And the Philistines fought with Israel He relates only Saul’s downfall; when relating the story of David, he does not tell of his disgrace, only of his heroism and greatness, because the Book pertains to him and to the kings of Judah.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Chronicles 10:1:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיַּדְבְּק֣וּand they pursued closely

    vaiyadbekuH1692

  • פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים[the] Philistines

    felishtimH6430287 times

  • אַחֲרֵ֥יafter

    ʾachareiH310715 times

  • שָׁא֖וּלSaul

    shaulH7586402 times

  • וְאַחֲרֵ֣יand after

    veachareiH310715 times

  • בָנָ֑יוsons his

    vanavH11214930 times

  • וַיַּכּ֣וּand they struck down

    vaiyakuH5221499 times

  • פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים[the] Philistines

    felishtimH6430287 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • יוֹנָתָ֧ןJonathan

    yonatanH312943 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH85310935 times

  • אֲבִינָדָ֛בAbinadab

    ʾavinadavH4112 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH85310935 times

  • מַלְכִּי־Malki-

    malki-H444410 times

  • שׁ֖וּעַShua

    shua'H444410 times

  • בְּנֵ֥י[the] sons of

    beneiH11214930 times

  • שָׁאֽוּל׃Saul

    shaulH7586402 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 14:49

    Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua. His two daughters were named Merab (his firstborn) and Michal (his younger daughter).

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 31:2

      The Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

      Reached by 3 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Chronicles 8:33

      Ner was the father of Kish, Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal.

    • 1 Chronicles 9:39

      Ner was the father of Kish, Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 8:33

    Ner was the father of Kish, Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 9:1

      Now there was a Benjamite, a powerful man, whose name was Kish son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah of Benjamin.

    • 1 Samuel 14:49–51

      Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua. His two daughters were named Merab (his firstborn) and Michal (his younger daughter).

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Samuel 2:8

      Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, took Saul’s son Ish-bosheth, moved him to Mahanaim,

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 9:39

    Ner was the father of Kish, Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 13:22

      So on the day of battle not a sword or spear could be found in the hands of the troops with Saul and Jonathan; only Saul and his son Jonathan had weapons.

  • Through

    2 Kings 25:7

    And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 32:4–5

      Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hands of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to…

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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.