So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armorbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armour-bearer, and all his men, that same day together.

and Saul dieth, and three of his sons, and the bearer of his weapons, also all his men, on that day together.

So death overtook Saul and his three sons and his servant on the same day.

All his men - This and similar expressions must not be taken too literally (compare 1-Chronicles 10:6). We know that Abner, and Ish-bosheth, and manymore survived the day of Gilboa.

And all his men - Probably meaning those of his troops which were his life or body guards: as to the bulk of the army, it fled at the commencement of the battle, 1-Samuel 31:1.

So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer,.... Only with this difference, his three sons died honourably in the field of battle, but he and his armourbearer destroyed themselves. Josephus says (e) he reigned eighteen years in the life of Samuel, and after his death twenty two years, which make the forty years the apostle ascribes to him, Acts 13:21; Eupolemus (f), an Heathen writer, makes him to reign twenty one years; but of the years of his reign, both before and after the death of Samuel, chronologers are not agreed, see 1-Samuel 25:1; and See Gill on Acts 13:21,
and all his men that same day together; not all the soldiers in his army; for many of them fled and escaped, and even Abner the general of the army, but his household servants, or those that were near his person, his bodyguards.
(e) Antiqu. l. 6. c. 14. sect. 9. (f) Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 3. p. 447.

So Saul died--(see on 1-Chronicles 10:13; Hosea 13:11).
and his three sons--The influence of a directing Providence is evidently to be traced in permitting the death of Saul's three eldest and most energetic sons, particularly that of Jonathan, for whom, had he survived his father, a strong party would undoubtedly have risen and thus obstructed the path of David to the throne.
and all his men, that same day together--his servants or bodyguard (1-Chronicles 10:6).