1st Samuel Chapter 31 verse 5 Holy Bible
And when his armorbearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword, and died with him.
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And when his servant saw that Saul was dead, he did the same, and was united with him in death.
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And when his armour-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on his sword, and died with him.
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And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.
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And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.
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When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.
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And the bearer of his weapons seeth that Saul `is' dead, and he falleth -- he also -- on his sword, and dieth with him;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 5, 6. - His armour bearer. The Jewish tradition says that he was Doeg the Edomite, and that the sword on which Saul fell was that with which he had massacred the priests. This is not very probable; but whoever he was, his horror on being asked to slay his master, and his devotion to him, are deserving of admiration. All his men. In 1 Chronicles 10:6" all his house." But Ishbosheth and Abner survived, and the meaning probably is not that his whole army, but that his personal attendants, all those posted round him, fell to a man, fighting bravely for their king, as the Scots fought round King James V. at Flodden Field. As suicide was very rare among the Israelites, the death of Saul is made more intensely tragic by the anguish which drove him thus to die by his own hand. POLITICAL RESULT OF THE BATTLE (ver. 7).
