1 Samuel 31:6
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New International Version (©2011)
So Saul and his three sons and his armor-bearer and all his men died together that same day.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So Saul, his three sons, his armor bearer, and his troops all died together that same day.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Thus Saul died with his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men on that day together.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So on that day, Saul died together with his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men.

International Standard Version (©2012)
As a result, Saul, his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men died together that day.

NET Bible (©2006)
So Saul, his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men died together that day.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So Saul, his three sons, his armorbearer, and all his men died together that day.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armorbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

American King James Version
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.

American Standard Version
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armorbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men that same day together.

Darby Bible Translation
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armour-bearer, and all his men, that same day together.

English Revised Version
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

Webster's Bible Translation
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, that same day together.

World English Bible
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.

Young's Literal Translation
and Saul dieth, and three of his sons, and the bearer of his weapons, also all his men, on that day together.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

31:1-7 We cannot judge of the spiritual or eternal state of any by the manner of their death; for in that, there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked. Saul, when sorely wounded, and unable to resist or to flee, expressed no concern about his never-dying soul; but only desired that the Philistines might not insult over him, or put him to pain, and he became his own murderer. As it is the grand deceit of the devil, to persuade sinners, under great difficulties, to fly to this last act of desperation, it is well to fortify the mind against it, by a serious consideration of its sinfulness before God, and its miserable consequences in society. But our security is not in ourselves. Let us seek protection from Him who keepeth Israel. Let us watch and pray; and take unto us the whole armour of God, that we may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer,.... Only with this difference, his three sons died honourably in the field of battle, but he and his armourbearer destroyed themselves. Josephus says (e) he reigned eighteen years in the life of Samuel, and after his death twenty two years, which make the forty years the apostle ascribes to him, Acts 13:21; Eupolemus (f), an Heathen writer, makes him to reign twenty one years; but of the years of his reign, both before and after the death of Samuel, chronologers are not agreed, see 1 Samuel 25:1; and See Gill on Acts 13:21,

and all his men that same day together; not all the soldiers in his army; for many of them fled and escaped, and even Abner the general of the army, but his household servants, or those that were near his person, his bodyguards.

(e) Antiqu. l. 6. c. 14. sect. 9. (f) Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 3. p. 447.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

6. So Saul died—(see on [255]1Ch 10:13; [256]Ho 13:11).

and his three sons—The influence of a directing Providence is evidently to be traced in permitting the death of Saul's three eldest and most energetic sons, particularly that of Jonathan, for whom, had he survived his father, a strong party would undoubtedly have risen and thus obstructed the path of David to the throne.

and all his men, that same day together—his servants or bodyguard (1Ch 10:6).

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Saul's Overthrow and Death
…4Then said Saul to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell on it. 5And when his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on his sword, and died with him. 6So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.

Judges 9:54 Hurriedly he called to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword and kill me, so that they can't say, 'A woman killed him.'" So his servant ran him through, and he died.
1 Samuel 26:10 As surely as the LORD lives," he said, "the LORD himself will strike him, or his time will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
1 Samuel 31:5 When the armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his sword and died with him.
1 Samuel 31:7 When the Israelites along the valley and those across the Jordan saw that the Israelite army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their towns and fled. And the Philistines came and occupied them.
2 Samuel 1:1 After the death of Saul, David returned from striking down the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days.
1 Chronicles 10:6 So Saul and his three sons died, and all his house died together.