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Gill, John, 1697-1771 • SECTION 442

1 Samuel 31:5

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1 Samuel 31:5

Ver. 5. And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead,.... By his own hands, and not by the hands of the Amalekite, which the armour bearer would scarcely have suffered:

he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him; some think that Saul, and his armourbearer, died by the same sword, which was the armourbearer's; and if he was Doeg, they fell probably by the same sword with which the priests of the Lord were murdered at Nob, 1Sa 22:18; and it is observed by an historian {d}, that the murderers of Julius Caesar slew themselves with the same dagger they destroyed him.

{d} Sucton. Vit. Caesar. c. 89.

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