Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 13:17
In three companies; that they might march several ways, and so waste several parts of the country. Ophrah; a city of Benjamin, Joshua 18:23, south-west from Michmash. read more
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Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 13:18
Beth-boron; a city of Ephraim, Joshua 16:3. north-west from Michmash. The wilderness, i.e. the wilderness of Jordan, eastward. read more
Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 13:19
This was a politic course of the Philistines, which also other nations have used. So the Chaldeans took away their smiths, 2 Kings 24:14; Jeremiah 24:1; Jeremiah 30:2; and Porsenna obliged the Romans by covenant, that they should use no iron but in the tillage of their lands. read more
Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 13:20
To the Philistines; not to the land of the Philistines, for it is not said so, and that was too remote; but to the stations and garrisons which the Philistines yet retained in several parts of Israel’s land, though Samuel’s authority had so far overawed them, that they durst not give the Israelites much disturbance. In these, therefore, the Philistines kept all the smiths, and here they allowed them the exercise of their art for the uses here following. read more
Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 13:21
So the sense is, They allowed them some small helps to make their mattocks, and in some sort to serve their present use. But these words may be otherwise translated, and are so by some learned, both ancient and modern, translators: thus, Therefore the mouths or edges of the mattocks a coulters, &. were dull or blunt. Or rather thus, When (Heb. and put for when, as the particle and is sometimes rendered, as Mark 15:25) the mouths or edges of the mattocks, &c. were blunt. So this passage... read more
Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 13:22
Quest. How could the Israelites smite either the garrison of the Philistines, above, 1 Samuel 13:3, or the host of the Ammonites, 1 Samuel 11:11, without arms? And when they had conquered them, why did they not take away their arms, and reserve them to their own use? Answ. 1. This want of swords and spears is not affirmed concerning all Israel, but is restrained unto those six hundred who were with Saul and Jonathan, whom God by his providence might suffer to be without those arms, that the... read more
Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 13:23
A place so called, because it was near to Michmash, and led towards Gibeah, which, it seems, they designed to besiege, and in the mean time to waste the adjoining country. read more
Joseph Exell
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Samuel 13:1-23
1 Samuel 13:1. A literal rendering of the Hebrew text in this verse would stand thus—Saul was years old when he began to reign, and he reigned, and two years over Israel. The Hebrew numerals have evidently fallen out, and nearly all commentators agree that this verse, according to the custom in the history of the kings (2 Samuel 2:10; 2 Samuel 5:4; 1 Kings 14:21; 1 Kings 22:42; 2 Kings 8:26) originally gave the age at which Saul began to reign and the number of years that his reign lasted.... read more
William Nicoll
Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 13:8-10
1 Samuel 13:8-10 (with 1 Timothy 1:16 ) King Saul had been expressly charged to await the coming of the prophet to offer an offering in Gilgal. It was a trial of fidelity and obedience. If Saul really believed that the direction was from God, and if he was really anxious to obey God, he would have waited. The seven days ran their course, and there was no sign of Samuel's approach. The king's resolution gave way. He offered the burnt offering, and scarcely had he done so when Samuel came. I.... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 13:15
Unto Gibeah of Benjamin; whither Saul also followed him, as appears from the next verse; either because it was better fortified than Gilgal; or because he expected a greater increase of his army there, it being in his own tribe, and nearer the heart of his kingdom; or because he hoped for Samuel’s assistance there. read more