Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageSo on that single day, Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men — together, all of them, gone.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GAnd so Sha'ul died — he and his three sons and his arms-bearer — and all his men, on that same day, together.
KJV
King James VersionSo Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleSo Saul, his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men died together that same day.
Footnotes
The repetition of 'on that day' and 'together' (*yakhdav*, יַחְדָּו) is the narrator's deliberate tolling of the bell: this is total, irreversible collapse. The dynasty does not erode gradually — it is extinguished in a single catastrophic day. This language echoes the pattern of divine judgment throughout the Tanakh, where a single 'day' of reckoning undoes what years of disobedience built. For any reader who remembers Samuel's solemn warning in 1 Samuel 8 about the king who would take their sons and send them to war — this is that day, arrived.