July 28, 2013 – 1 Chronicles 8

Here we see Saul and his heirs.  We see that Saul’s line goes on after Saul and Jonathon.  If you recall some, or many, of the stories coming after David and Saul, whenever a king was dethroned, it usually followed that all of his heirs died with him.  We see that this didn’t happen with Saul.  That probably has a lot to do with how much David respected Saul as God’s anointed and how much he loved Jonathon.  We can remember how upset David was when someone in Saul’s family was hurt or killed despite his orders.  I would have thought that Saul’s heirs would have been more interested in trying to reclaim the throne from David’s heirs.  They would have had some claim, I think, but that never really seem to come up as a claim from what I can remember.