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1 Samuele 31:3

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3 E lo sforzo della battaglia si voltò contro a Saulle, e gli arcieri saettando lo scontrarono; ed egli ebbe gran paura di quegli arcieri.

1 Samuele 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).


FOOTNOTES:

F1 (whaumyw) "et inveserust cum", Pagninus, Montanus.
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1 Samuele 31:3 In-Context

1 ORA i Filistei combatterono contro ad Israele; e gl’Israeliti fuggirono d’innanzi a’ Filistei, e caddero morti nel monte di Ghilboa.
2 Ed i Filistei perseguitarono di presso Saulle e i suoi figliuoli; e percossero Gionatan, e Abinadab, e Malchi-sua, figliuoli di Saulle.
3 E lo sforzo della battaglia si voltò contro a Saulle, e gli arcieri saettando lo scontrarono; ed egli ebbe gran paura di quegli arcieri.
4 Allora Saulle disse a colui che portava le sue armi: Tira fuori la tua spada, e trafiggimi con essa chè talora questi incirconcisi non vengano, e mi trafiggano, e mi scherniscano. Ma colui che portava le sue armi non volle farlo; perciocchè egli temeva forte. Laonde Saulle prese la spada, e si lasciò cader sopra essa.
5 E colui che portava le armi di Saulle, veduto ch’egli era morto, si lasciò cadere anch’egli sopra la sua spada, e morì con lui.
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