
Text -- 1 Chronicles 10:13 (NET)




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Against God's express command: which is a great aggravation of any sin.
JFB -> 1Ch 10:13
JFB: 1Ch 10:13 - -- In having spared the king of the Amalekites and taken the flocks of the people as spoils [1Sa 15:9], as well as in having consulted a pythoness [1Sa 2...
In having spared the king of the Amalekites and taken the flocks of the people as spoils [1Sa 15:9], as well as in having consulted a pythoness [1Sa 28:7]. Both of these acts were great sins--the first as a violation of God's express and positive command [1Sa 15:3], and the second as contrary to a well-known statute of the kingdom (Lev 19:31).
Clarke -> 1Ch 10:13
Defender -> 1Ch 10:13
Defender: 1Ch 10:13 - -- The Lord can exact severe penalties upon those who reject His word in favor of guidance from the occult. The increasing reliance on "spirit-guides" an...
TSK -> 1Ch 10:13
TSK: 1Ch 10:13 - -- committed : Heb. transgressed
even against : 1Sa 13:13, 1Sa 15:2, 1Sa 15:23
for asking : 1Sa 28:7-20
a familiar : Exo 22:18; Lev 19:31, Lev 20:6; Deu ...
committed : Heb. transgressed
even against : 1Sa 13:13, 1Sa 15:2, 1Sa 15:23
for asking : 1Sa 28:7-20
a familiar : Exo 22:18; Lev 19:31, Lev 20:6; Deu 18:10-14; 2Ki 21:6; Isa 8:19; Act 8:9-11, Act 16:16-18

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Barnes -> 1Ch 10:13
Barnes: 1Ch 10:13 - -- For his transgression - Compare 1Ch 9:1. The "transgression"intended is probably the disobedience with respect to Amalek, recorded in 1Sa 15:1-...
For his transgression - Compare 1Ch 9:1. The "transgression"intended is probably the disobedience with respect to Amalek, recorded in 1Sa 15:1-9 (compare 1Sa 28:17-18).
Poole -> 1Ch 10:13
Poole: 1Ch 10:13 - -- Saul died for his transgression: the sense is, Wonder not that Saul fell by the hands of the Philistines, who were armed against him by his own sin a...
Saul died for his transgression: the sense is, Wonder not that Saul fell by the hands of the Philistines, who were armed against him by his own sin and by God’ s vengeance for it.
Against the word of the Lord against God’ s express, and plain, and positive command; which is a great aggravation of any sin.
For asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit which also was contrary to a manifest command, Lev 19:31 , and moreover, contrary to his own conscience, which was so fully convinced hereof, that he had endeavoured the utter extirpation of all such persons, in pursuance of God’ s law. See 1Sa 28:9 .
To inquire of it concerning the event of the approaching battle.
Haydock -> 1Ch 10:13
Haydock: 1Ch 10:13 - -- For. Septuagint, "in his iniquities." (Haydock) ---
See 1 Kings xiii. 9., and xv. 23. Saul offered sacrifice unlawfully, and spared some of the A...
For. Septuagint, "in his iniquities." (Haydock) ---
See 1 Kings xiii. 9., and xv. 23. Saul offered sacrifice unlawfully, and spared some of the Amalecites. (Worthington)
Gill -> 1Ch 10:13
Gill: 1Ch 10:13 - -- So Saul died for his transgression,.... See Gill on 1Sa 31:13 A violent and dishonourable death, which was suffered on account of the sins he was guil...
So Saul died for his transgression,.... See Gill on 1Sa 31:13 A violent and dishonourable death, which was suffered on account of the sins he was guilty of:
one was, which he committed against the Lord, even against the word of the Lord, which he kept not; both in not staying for Samuel the time appointed, and by sparing the Amalekites whom he was bid to destroy, 1Sa 13:13.
and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire of it; what he should do with respect to engaging in battle with the Philistines, 1Sa 28:8 which to do was contrary to an express command of God, Lev 19:31.

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TSK Synopsis -> 1Ch 10:1-14
TSK Synopsis: 1Ch 10:1-14 - --1 Saul's overthrow and death.8 The Philistines triumph over Saul.11 The kindness of Jabesh-gilead towards Saul and his sons.13 Saul's sin, for which t...
MHCC -> 1Ch 10:1-14
MHCC: 1Ch 10:1-14 - --The design chiefly in view in these books of the Chronicles, appears to be to preserve the records of the house of David. Therefore the writer repeats...
Matthew Henry -> 1Ch 10:8-14
Matthew Henry: 1Ch 10:8-14 - -- Here, I. From the triumph of the Philistines over the body of Saul we may learn, 1. That the greater dignity men are advanced to the greater disgrac...
Keil-Delitzsch -> 1Ch 10:8-13
Keil-Delitzsch: 1Ch 10:8-13 - --
On the following day the Philistines, in their search among the fallen, found and plundered the bodies of Saul and of his sons, and sent the head an...
Constable -> 1Ch 10:1--29:30; 1Ch 10:1-14
Constable: 1Ch 10:1--29:30 - --II. THE REIGN OF DAVID chs. 10--29
In all of Chronicles the writer assumed his readers' acquaintance with the ot...
