2 Samuel 1:6
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2 Samuel 1:6 (King James Version)
And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.
- As I happened
- The story of this young man appears to be wholly a fiction, formed for the purpose of ingratiating himself with David, as the next probable successor to the crown. There is no fact in the case, except for the bringing of the diadem and bracelets of Saul, as a sufficient evidence of his death, which, as he appears to been a plunderer of the slain, he seems to have stripped from the dead body of the unfortunate monarch. It is remarkable, that Saul, who had forfeited his crown by his disobedience and ill-timed clemency with respect to the Amalekites, should now have the insignia of royalty stripped from his person by one of those very people.
- Ruth 2:3 ; 1 Samuel 6:9 ; Luke 10:31
- mount
- 21 ; 1 Samuel 28:4 ; 31:1
- Saul
- 1 Samuel 31:2-7