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Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Vol. 16, No. 52, 61-76 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/030908929101605204
© 1991 SAGE Publications

Saul of Gibeon

Stanley D. Walters

Knox College, University of Toronto 59 St George St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2E6

Saul is the only person in the Chronicler's genealogies not to be linked to one of Jacob's twelve sons. He is linked instead with Gibeon, a city which typifies Canaanite religious and political traditions. He is therefore unsuitable to be king, and the future belongs to David and a revived Davidic state. The MT of Samuel associates Saul instead with Gibeah (2 Sam. 21.6), and thus prefers prophetic ideals of the kingship and of the future.


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