"And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him."
Commentary
Gill's Exposition
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, Sa1 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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Commentary
Gill's Exposition
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, Sa1 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.