Patriarchs & Prophets: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 66

The Death of Saul

Audio:
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What bondage so terrible as that of him who is given over to the control of the worst of tyrants--himself!
The woman's first words under the spell of her incantation had been addressed to the king, "Why

hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul." 1 Samuel 28:12. Thus the first act of the evil spirit which personated the prophet was to communicate secretly with this wicked woman, to warn her of the deception that had been practiced upon her.
The dead bodies of Saul and his sons were dragged to Beth-shan...Here they were hung up in chains, to be devoured by birds of prey. But the brave men of Jabesh-gilead, remembering Saul's deliverance of their city in his earlier and happier years, now manifested their gratitude by rescuing the bodies of the king and princes, and giving them honorable burial. Crossing the Jordan by night, they took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there, And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days. 1 Samuel 31:12,13. Thus the noble deed performed forty years before, secured for Saul and his sons burial by tender and pitying hands in that dark hour of defeat and dishonor.