10:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel. The Israelites fled before the Philistines and many of them fell dead on Mount Gilboa.
10:8 The next day, when the Philistines came to strip loot from the corpses, they discovered Saul and his sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa.
Jashobeam, a Hacmonite, was head of the officers. 5 He killed three hundred men with his spear in a single battle. 6
1 tn Heb “from God [was] the battle.”
2 tn Heb “many slain fell.”
3 tn Heb “and they lived in place of them until the exile.” The referent of “them” (the Hagrites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “and these are the number of the warriors who were David’s.”
5 tc The marginal reading (Qere) has “officers;” the consonantal text (Kethib) has “the Thirty” (see v. 15).
6 tn Heb “he was wielding his spear against 300, [who were] slain at one time.”