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Saul (/ s ɔː l /; Hebrew: שָׁאוּל , Šāʾūl; Greek: Σαούλ, Saoúl; transl. "asked/prayed for") was a monarch of ancient Israel and Judah and, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament, the first king of the United Monarchy, a polity of uncertain historicity.
Throughout the monarchy of Saul, the capital is in Gibeah. After Saul's death, Ish-bosheth rules over the Kingdom of Israel from Mahanaim, and David establishes the capital of the Kingdom of Judah in Hebron. [69] After the civil war with Saul, David forges a powerful and unified Israelite monarchy and rules from c. 1000 to 961 BCE. [70]
In this context, King Saul is dying by suicide because he believes he will die and end his pain sooner. Alternatively, his servant kills himself out of devotion and respect for his king. The third account of suicide is that of a servant of King David’s son, Absalom. The servant, named Ahithophel, hanged himself as Absalom did not take his advice.
The son of Doeg was Saul's armor-bearer, who was killed by David for daring to slay the king even though he longed for death." [17] According to another Midrash, Doeg tried to preserve the life of Agag, the king of the Amalekites-Edomites, by interpreting Lev. 22:28 into a prohibition against the destruction of both the old and the young in war ...
The Suicide of Saul is an early attempt by Bruegel to reconcile landscape and figure painting. Despite the scale of the subject, at 33.5 cm × 55 cm (13.2 in × 22 in) it is rather small compared to his later landscape subjects, but has an "astonishingly dense and highly dramatic composition". [ 2 ]
Witch of Endor by Adam Elsheimer.. When the prophet Samuel dies, he is buried in Rama (1 Samuel 25:1; 28:3).Saul, the King of Israel, seeks advice from God in choosing a course of action against the assembled forces of the Philistine army.
In the biblical narrative, he is the eldest son of King Saul of the Kingdom of Israel, and a close friend of David. He is described as having great strength and swiftness ( 2 Samuel 1:23 ) and excelling in archery ( 1 Samuel 20:20 , 2 Samuel 1:22 ) and slinging ( 1 Chronicles 12:2 ).
the incident of Saul berating Jonathan for his friendship with David in 1 Sam. 20:30–34; David fleeing from the court of King Saul in 1 Sam. 20:1–42; the description of David and Jonathan's final meeting in 1 Sam. 23:15–18; David's lament (the Song of the Bow) for Saul and Jonathan in 2 Sam. 1:17–27