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1 Chronicles 10:6 Explained in Context
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Verse 6. 6So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together.
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Quick Meaning
Summarizes Saul, his three sons, and his house dying together.
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 10:1–10:7
Summarizes Saul, his three sons, and his house dying together. Read 1 Chronicles 10:6 within 10:1–10:7. The complete unit records: Philistines defeat Israel, kill Saul's sons, wound Saul, and occupy abandoned cities after Saul and his armor-bearer die.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The narrative begins not with David's rise but with national defeat, family death, suicide, and civilian displacement. In this exact position, the line beginning “So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together.” summarizes Saul, his three sons, and his house dying together.
Follow the Context
- Philistines defeat Israel, kill Saul's sons, wound Saul, and occupy abandoned cities after Saul and his armor-bearer die.
- The narrative begins not with David's rise but with national defeat, family death, suicide, and civilian displacement.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together.”
In plain language: Summarizes Saul, his three sons, and his house dying together.
The line beginning “So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together.” summarizes Saul, his three sons, and his house dying together.
Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
The account does not glorify suicide, blame displaced civilians, treat Philistines as evil by ethnicity, or make every military loss proof of personal sin.
What Remains True
Summarizes Saul, his three sons, and his house dying together. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Accounts of conflict must name agents, victims, land, loss, and literary judgment without converting ancient war into a modern command or ethnic hostility.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse summarizes Saul, his three sons, and his house dying together, keep it inside 10:1–10:7, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain why 1 Chronicles 10:6 summarizes Saul, his three sons, and his house dying together. Use 10:1–10:7, paraphrase “So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together.,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
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Read 1 Chronicles 10:1–10:7 — Saul, his sons, and displaced towns fall at GilboaSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
1 Chronicles 10:6 remains within this thought-unit limit: Chronicles compresses 1 Samuel 31 and intensifies 'all his house'; death details, scope, and source wording differ and should not be silently harmonized.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 1 Chronicles 10:1–10:7, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 10:1–10:7
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NET Bible Full Notes: 1 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
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Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 1 Chronicles 10:1–10:7, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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