1 Chronicles 10

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1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.

2 The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

3 The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers.

4 Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me.” But his armor bearer would not, for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell on it.

5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword and died.

6 So Saul died with his three sons; and all his house died together.

7 When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.

8 On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

9 They stripped him and took his head and his armor, then sent into the land of the Philistines all around to carry the news to their idols and to the people.

10 They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.

11 When all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,

12 all the valiant men arose and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

13 So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the LORD, because of the LORD’s word, which he didn’t keep, and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,

14 and didn’t inquire of the LORD. Therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.

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3 places named in this chapter.

Where this was written

Jerusalem traditional A temple-centred history composed in the restored Jerusalem.

When this was written

Traditions differ. Each position is shown rather than one asserted as settled.

Traditional: 450 BC–430 BC Ezra
Traditionally the work of Ezra the scribe.
Critical: 400 BC–350 BC The Chronicler
Genealogies reaching several generations past Zerubbabel point later.

Elsewhere in the world

Events overlapping the period this book is dated to (450 BC–350 BC).

1200 BC–400 BC Olmec civilisation Mesoamerica
The earliest major Mesoamerican civilisation, known for colossal stone heads and an early calendar.
1070 BC–350 AD The kingdom of Kush Africa
A Nubian power on the upper Nile that ruled Egypt itself as its twenty-fifth dynasty.
550 BC–330 BC The Persian empire founded Persia
Cyrus and his successors ruled from the Aegean to the Indus, the largest empire the world had yet seen.
500 BC–500 AD The Nazca lines South America
Vast figures drawn on the Peruvian desert, visible only from the surrounding hills.
499 BC–449 BC Greco-Persian wars Greece
Persia's attempts to subdue the Greek mainland failed at Marathon, Salamis and Plataea.
484 BC–425 BC Herodotus writes his Histories Greece
The first sustained attempt to inquire into the causes of events rather than simply record them.
460 BC–370 BC Hippocratic medicine Greece
Medicine separated from religion, seeking natural causes for disease.
447 BC–432 BC The Parthenon built Greece
Athens' temple to Athena, built at the height of its imperial confidence.

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