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The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers.
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Verse 3. Reached: lit. “found.” Bible.—Hebrew “attacked him, and he feared the archers. He was not, at least, mortally wounded, when he took the desperate resolution to destroy himself, through fear and consternation. Calmet. Yet the original will admit the sense of the Vulg. and Saul might have received some wounds. Septuagint “Archers found him with bows, and in labours, and he laboured on account of (or to avoid) the bows.” Bible.
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