Text: 1 Chronicles 10:1-14
OT Text Referred to: 1 Samuel 28:3-25
Subject: Parallel accounts of Saul's final battle and death
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: These are parallel historiographical accounts of Saul's final days and death. First Samuel 28:3-25 provides the detailed narrative of Saul consulting the medium at En-dor, while 1 Chronicles 10:1-14 compresses the battle account and adds an explicit theological evaluation absent from Samuel. The Chronicler omits the Endor scene but references it in his verdict (10:13): Saul died for his unfaithfulness (מַעַל, ma'al), including "consulting a medium for guidance" instead of inquiring of YHWH. The key difference is the Chronicler's addition: "So the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David" (10:14), making explicit what Samuel's narrative implies through literary structure.