What Does 1 Chronicles 10:8 Mean in the King James?
And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Hebrew word for “slain” shares its root with “pierce” and “profane,” making the stripping of the dead feel like a continuation of the wound.
THE MEANING
The scene lays out the morning after slaughter: the Philistines come to strip the slain, and Saul and his sons are found fallen on Gilboa. The dead remain exposed to the living and to the victors’ hands.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Royal rank cannot shield a person from the aftermath of battlefield defeat.
THE ROOT
חֲלָלִים
chalalim
GROWS FROM
חלל
chalal
Pierce or wound; the wider word family also carries the sense of profaning or desecrating.
The Hebrew noun translated “slain” grows from חלל (chalal), whose word family includes piercing or wounding and profaning. Here, the wound does not end with death: the enemy comes to strip the fallen, and the neighboring sense of desecration sharpens that aftermath.
ALSO GROWS
chalal: To pierce or wound.
חָלַל
It supplies the wound carried by the word translated “slain.”
chillel: To profane, desecrate, or make common.
חִלֵּל
This neighboring branch brings the violation of the dead into view as the victors strip them.
THE PATTERN
Violent death can continue into exposure, as the living handle, display, or deny burial to the dead.
And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.THE THREAD
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!“Slain” here grows from the same root, חלל (chalal), “to pierce or wound; to profane,” as the word for the slain in Chronicles. The lament holds the slain and the fallen together, letting grief name the same violent loss.
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