Theory question 103
Saul and the Monarchy(a) Recount the story of the death of Saul on Mount Gilboa. (b) State two effects of disobedience.
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(a) The Philistines fought Israel; the men of Israel fled and fell on Mount Gilboa (1 Samuel 31:1).
The Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab and Malchishua (1 Samuel 31:2).
Saul was badly wounded by archers (1 Samuel 31:3).
He asked his armour-bearer to kill him lest the Philistines mock him; the man refused (1 Samuel 31:4).
Saul fell on his own sword; his armour-bearer did the same (1 Samuel 31:4-5).
The Israelites fled their cities and the Philistines occupied them (1 Samuel 31:7).
The Philistines cut off his head, put his armour in the temple of Ashtaroth and fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan (1 Samuel 31:9-10).
The men of Jabesh-gilead took the bodies, burnt them and buried the bones (1 Samuel 31:11-13).
(b) Any two: rejection by God; loss of position; death; suffering for one's family; loss of God's Spirit and peace; national disaster.
Narrate 1 Samuel 31, then two effects.