1 Chronicles 10:5

in 1 Chronicles 10

When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his own sword and died.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword, and died.

KJV

And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on the sword, and died.

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Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

Draw thy sword, and thrust me through

on 1 Chronicles 10:4-5

Saul falls on his own sword rather than risk capture, and his armourbearer follows him rather than obey the order to finish the act. The scene matches 1 Samuel 31:4-5 nearly word for word, and the exposition built there already carries the weight of the act itself. Chronicles keeps the moment only to reach the verdict two verses later; the suicide is neither softened nor lingered over.

The words behind it

12 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.

Hebrew	Sound	Meaning	Word study	In the Bible
וַיַּ֥רְא	vaiyar'	and he saw	H7200 →	1300 times
נֹשֵֽׂא־	nose'-	[the] bearer of	H5375 →	656 times
כֵלָ֖יו	khelav	weapons his	H3627 →	325 times
כִּ֣י	ki	that	H3588 →	4482 times
מֵ֣ת	met	he had died	H4191 →	839 times
שָׁא֑וּל	shaul	Saul	H7586 →	402 times
וַיִּפֹּ֥ל	vaiyipol	and he fell	H5307 →	435 times
גַּם־	gam-	also	H1571 →	769 times
ה֛וּא	hu'	he	H1931 →	1879 times
עַל־	ʾal-	on	H5921 →	5755 times
הַחֶ֖רֶב	hacherev	the sword	H2719 →	413 times
וַיָּמֹֽת׃ ס	vaiyamot	and he died	H4191 →	839 times