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1. Samuelova 31

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1 A Filisteji se pobiše s Izrailjcima, i pobegoše Izrailjci ispred Filisteja, i padahu mrtvi na gori Gelvuji.

2 I stigoše Filisteji Saula i sinove njegove; i pogubiše Filisteji Jonatana i Avinadava i Melhi-Suva, sinove Saulove.

3 I boj posta žešći oko Saula, i nađoše ga strelci, i on se vrlo uplaši od strelaca.

4 I reče Saul momku koji mu nošaše oružje: Izvadi mač svoj i probodi me, da ne dođu ti neobrezani i probodu me i narugaju mi se. Ali ne hte momak što mu nošaše oružje, jer ga beše vrlo strah. Tada Saul uze mač, i baci se na nj.

5 A kad momak koji nošaše oružje vide Saula mrtvog, baci se i on na svoj mač i umre s njim.

6 Tako pogibe Saul i tri sina njegovog i momak koji mu nošaše oružje i svi ljudi njegovi zajedno, onog dana.

7 A Izrailjci koji behu s ove strane potoka i s ovu stranu Jordana kad videše gde Izrailjci pobegoše i gde pogibe Saul i njegovi sinovi, ostaviše gradove i pobegoše, te dođoše Filisteji i ostaše u njima.

8 A sutradan dođoše Filisteji da svlače mrtve; i nađoše Saula i tri sina njegovog gde leže na gori Gelvuji.

9 I odsekoše mu glavu, i skidoše oružje s njega, i poslaše u zemlju filistejsku na sve strane da se objavi u kući njegovih lažnih bogova i po narodu.

10 I ostaviše oružje njegovo u kući Astarotinoj, a telo njegovo obesiše na zid vet-sanski.

11 A čuše stanovnici u Javisu Galadovom šta učiniše Filisteji od Saula.

12 I podigoše se svi ljudi hrabri, i išavši svu noćskidoše telo Saulovo i telesa sinova njegovih sa zida vet-sanskog, pa se vratiše u Javis, i onde ih spališe.

13 I uzeše kosti njihove i pogreboše ih pod drvetom u Javisu, i postiše sedam dana.

   

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Seven

  

Seven, as in Revelation 15:1, signifies everything in an universal sense. The number 'seven' was considered holy, as is well known, because of the six days of creation, and the seventh, which is the celestial self, where peace, rest, and the Sabbath is. The number seven occurs so frequently in the rites of the Jewish church and is held holy everywhere.

So times were divided into seven, longer and shorter intervals, and were called weeks, like the great intervals of times till the coming of the Messiah, in Daniel 9:24-25. The time of seven years is called 'a week' by Laban and Jacob, as in Genesis 29:27-28. So wherever the number seven occurs, it is considered holy and sacred, as in Psalm 119:164, and in Isaiah 30:26.

As the periods of a person's regeneration are distinguished into six, prior to the seventh, or the celestial self, so the times of vastation are also distinguished, until nothing celestial is left. This was represented by the many captivities of the Jews, and by the last Babylonian captivity, which lasted seven decades, or seventy years. This was also represented by Nebuchadnezzar, in Daniel 4:16, 22, 29. It also refers to the vastation of the end times, in Revelation 15:1, 7-8. They should 'tread the holy city under foot, forty and two months, or six times seven,' as in Revelation 11:2 and Revelation 5:1. So the severity and increments of punishment were expressed by the number seven, as in Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24, 28 and Psalm 79:12.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 5, 7-8, 15; Arcana Coelestia 395; Daniel 9, 9:24, 9:25; Psalms 119)