I think that's speaking figuratively. Saul felt on his sword.
Thanks. Saul did in fact fall on his sword.
“Therefore Saul took his sword and fell on it.”
(1 Chronicles 10:4)
The chapter was in my Bible reading plan yesterday. I thought about you when I read verse 14.
“So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the LORD, because of the word of the LORD which he did not keep; and also because he asked counsel of a medium, making inquiry of it, and did not inquire of the LORD. Therefore
He killed him and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.”
(1 Chronicles 10:13-14)
Italics is mine.
“He [the LORD] killed him [Saul],” not the Trinity killed him.
The Trinity is he, but each member of the Trinity is a he. Three he’s who are one he.
The “he” who killed Saul is Yahweh, not Jesus nor the Trinity.
I happen to be using the NASB Quick Study Bible with the reading plan I’m following this year - the reading plan is called “The Bible Companion”. I use it once every decade, and have for the past four decades.
“10:14
HE KILLED HIM. This statement is shocking in its bluntness. In the final analysis, Saul’s death was not by his own hand, but by the hand of God. The Lord let Saul pursue a course that led to death.”
(NASB study note)
Did you notice that the text translation is “LORD” but the study note is “Lord”?
The study note would have raised my eyebrows if it had said “lord” - the
adoni title used in the Hebrew Bible for persons who aren’t Yahweh. That would have caused me to think about the unnamed Messiah in Psalm 110:1 - which isn’t at all what the person who wrote the study note had in mind.