Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 31:3

3 Shì paì shén dà , Sǎoluó beì gōngjiànshǒu zhuī shàng , shè shāng shén zhòng ,

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 31:3 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 31:3

And the battle went sore against Saul
Pressed heavy upon him; he was the butt of the Philistines, they aimed at his person and life:

and the archers hit him;
or "found him" ^F1; the place where was, and directed their arrows at him:

and he was sore wounded of the archers;
or rather "he was afraid" of them, as the Targum, for as yet he was not wounded; and so the Syriac and Arabic versions render it, and is the sense Kimchi and Ben Melech give of the word: he was not afraid of death, as Abarbinel observes, he chose to die; but he was afraid he should be hit by the archers in such a way that he should not die immediately, and should be taken alive and ill used; the Philistines, especially the Cherethites, were famous for archery; (See Gill on Zephaniah 2:5).

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 (whaumyw) "et inveserust cum", Pagninus, Montanus.

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 31:3 In-Context

1 Fēilìshì rén yǔ Yǐsèliè rén zhēng zhàn . Yǐsèliè rén zaì Fēilìshì rén miànqián taópǎo , zaì jī lì bō yǒu beì shā pú dǎo de .

2 Fēilìshì rén jǐn zhuī Sǎoluó hé tā érzi men , jiù shā le Sǎoluó de érzi Yuēnádān , yà bǐ ná dá , maì jī shū yà .

3 Shì paì shén dà , Sǎoluó beì gōngjiànshǒu zhuī shàng , shè shāng shén zhòng ,

4 Jiù fēnfu ná tā bīngqì de rén shuō , nǐ bá chū dāo lái , jiāng wǒ cī sǐ , miǎndé nàxiē wèi shòu gēlǐ de rén lái cī wǒ , língrǔ wǒ . dàn ná bīngqì de rén shén jùpà , bù kĕn cī tā . Sǎoluó jiù zìjǐ fú zaì dāo shàng sǐ le .

5 Ná bīngqì de rén jiàn Sǎoluó yǐ sǐ , yĕ fú zaì dāo shàng sǐ le .