_NOW IT CAME TO PASS UPON A DAY, THAT JONATHAN THE SON OF SAUL SAID UNTO THE YOUNG MAN THAT BARE HIS_ _ ARMOUR, COME, AND LET US GO OVER TO THE PHILISTINES' GARRISON, THAT IS ON THE OTHER SIDE. BUT HE TOLD NOT HIS FATHER._ The Philistines' garrison - margin, the standing camp in "the passage of Mic... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL TARRIED IN THE UTTERMOST PART OF GIBEAH UNDER A POMEGRANATE TREE WHICH IS IN MIGRON: AND THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM WERE ABOUT SIX HUNDRED MEN;_ Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah. His head quarters were removed from Geba to Migron, 'in the extremity or skirts of Gibeah,'-thu... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AHIAH, THE SON OF AHITUB, ICHABOD'S BROTHER, THE SON OF PHINEHAS, THE SON OF ELI, THE LORD'S PRIEST IN SHILOH, WEARING AN EPHOD. AND THE PEOPLE KNEW NOT THAT JONATHAN WAS GONE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND BETWEEN THE PASSAGES, BY WHICH JONATHAN SOUGHT TO GO OVER UNTO THE PHILISTINES' GARRISON, THERE WAS A SHARP ROCK ON THE ONE SIDE, AND A SHARP ROCK ON THE OTHER SIDE: AND THE NAME OF THE ONE WAS BOZEZ, AND THE NAME OF THE OTHER SENEH._ Between the passages - i:e., the deep and great ravine of S... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE FOREFRONT OF THE ONE WAS SITUATE NORTHWARD OVER AGAINST MICHMASH, AND THE OTHER SOUTHWARD OVER AGAINST GIBEAH._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JONATHAN SAID TO THE YOUNG MAN THAT BARE HIS ARMOUR, COME, AND LET US GO OVER UNTO THE GARRISON OF THESE UNCIRCUMCISED: IT MAY BE THAT THE LORD WILL WORK FOR US: FOR THERE IS NO RESTRAINT TO THE LORD TO SAVE BY MANY OR BY FEW._ Jonathan said to the young man ... Come, and let us go over unto t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HIS ARMOURBEARER SAID UNTO HIM, DO ALL THAT IS IN THINE HEART: TURN THEE; BEHOLD, I AM WITH THEE ACCORDING TO THY HEART._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAID JONATHAN, BEHOLD, WE WILL PASS OVER UNTO THESE MEN, AND WE WILL DISCOVER OURSELVES UNTO THEM._ Behold, we will pass over unto these men, and we will discover ourselves unto them, х_ WªNIGLIYNUW _ (H1540)] - we will appear, show ourselves. [The Septuagint, mistaking _ GAALAAH_ (H1540), be... [ Continue Reading ]
_IF THEY SAY THUS UNTO US, TARRY UNTIL WE COME TO YOU; THEN WE WILL STAND STILL IN OUR PLACE, AND WILL NOT GO UP UNTO THEM._ If they say ...... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT IF THEY SAY THUS, COME UP UNTO US; THEN WE WILL GO UP: FOR THE LORD HATH DELIVERED THEM INTO OUR HAND: AND THIS SHALL BE A SIGN UNTO US._ Come up ... the Lord hath delivered them into our hand. When Jonathan appears here to prescribe a sign or token of God's will, we may infer that the same sp... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND BOTH OF THEM DISCOVERED THEMSELVES UNTO THE GARRISON OF THE PHILISTINES: AND THE PHILISTINES SAID, BEHOLD, THE HEBREWS COME FORTH OUT OF THE HOLES WHERE THEY HAD HID THEMSELVES._ Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes. Since it could not occur to the sentries that two men had come wit... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MEN OF THE GARRISON ANSWERED JONATHAN AND HIS ARMOURBEARER, AND SAID, COME UP TO US, AND WE WILL SHEW YOU A THING. AND JONATHAN SAID UNTO HIS ARMOURBEARER, COME UP AFTER ME: FOR THE LORD HATH DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HAND OF ISRAEL._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JONATHAN CLIMBED UP UPON HIS HANDS AND UPON HIS FEET, AND HIS ARMOURBEARER AFTER HIM: AND THEY FELL BEFORE JONATHAN; AND HIS ARMOURBEARER SLEW AFTER HIM._ And they fell before Jonathan, х_ WAYIPLUW_ (H5307); Septuagint, reading wayipªnuw, they stared at, kai epeblepsan kata prosoopou Ioonathan... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THAT FIRST SLAUGHTER, WHICH JONATHAN AND HIS ARMOURBEARER MADE, WAS ABOUT TWENTY MEN, WITHIN AS IT WERE AN HALF ACRE OF LAND, WHICH A YOKE OF OXEN MIGHT PLOW._ That first slaughter ... within ... an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow. This was a very ancient mode of measurement... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THERE WAS TREMBLING IN THE HOST, IN THE FIELD, AND AMONG ALL THE PEOPLE: THE GARRISON, AND THE SPOILERS, THEY ALSO TREMBLED, AND THE EARTH QUAKED: SO IT WAS A VERY GREAT TREMBLING._ And there was trembling in the host in the field and among all the people: the garrison and the And there was tr... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WATCHMEN OF SAUL IN GIBEAH OF BENJAMIN LOOKED; AND, BEHOLD, THE MULTITUDE MELTED AWAY, AND THEY WENT ON BEATING DOWN ONE ANOTHER._ The watchmen of Saul ... looked. The wild disorder in the enemies' camp was descried, and the noise of dismay heard on the heights of Gibeah.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAID SAUL UNTO THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM, NUMBER NOW, AND SEE WHO IS GONE FROM US. AND WHEN THEY HAD NUMBERED, BEHOLD, JONATHAN AND HIS ARMOURBEARER WERE NOT THERE._ Said Saul ... Number now, and see who is gone from us. The idea occurred to him that it might be some daring adventurer bel... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL SAID UNTO AHIAH, BRING HITHER THE ARK OF GOD. FOR THE ARK OF GOD WAS AT THAT TIME WITH THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL._ Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. There is no evidence that the ark had been brought from Kirjath-jearim. [The Septuagint version is preferable; which, by a sli... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHILE SAUL TALKED UNTO THE PRIEST, THAT THE NOISE THAT WAS IN THE HOST OF THE PHILISTINES WENT ON AND INCREASED: AND SAUL SAID UNTO THE PRIEST, WITHDRAW THINE HAND._ Withdraw thine hand. The priest, invested with the ephod, prayed with raised and extended hands. Saul, perceivi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM ASSEMBLED THEMSELVES, AND THEY CAME TO THE BATTLE: AND, BEHOLD, EVERY MAN'S SWORD WAS AGAINST HIS FELLOW, AND THERE WAS A VERY GREAT DISCOMFITURE._ Saul and all the people. The whole warriors in the garrison of Gibeah, the Israelite deserters in the c... [ Continue Reading ]
_MOREOVER THE HEBREWS THAT WERE WITH THE PHILISTINES BEFORE THAT TIME, WHICH WENT UP WITH THEM INTO THE CAMP FROM THE COUNTRY ROUND ABOUT, EVEN THEY ALSO TURNED TO BE WITH THE ISRAELITES THAT WERE WITH SAUL AND JONATHAN._ The Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, х_ WªHAA-`IBRIYM... [ Continue Reading ]
_LIKEWISE ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL WHICH HAD HID THEMSELVES IN MOUNT EPHRAIM, WHEN THEY HEARD THAT THE PHILISTINES FLED, EVEN THEY ALSO FOLLOWED HARD AFTER THEM IN THE BATTLE._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THE LORD SAVED ISRAEL THAT DAY: AND THE BATTLE PASSED OVER UNTO BETHAVEN._ So the Lord saved Israel that day; and the battle passed over unto Beth-aven - i:e., Beth-el. It passed over the forest, now destroyed, on the central ridge of Palestine, then over to the other side, from the eastern pas... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL WERE DISTRESSED THAT DAY: FOR SAUL HAD ADJURED THE PEOPLE, SAYING, CURSED BE THE MAN THAT EATETH ANY FOOD UNTIL EVENING, THAT I MAY BE AVENGED ON MINE ENEMIES. SO NONE OF THE PEOPLE TASTED ANY FOOD._ Saul had adjured the people. Afraid lest so precious an opportunity of effec... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THEY OF THE LAND CAME TO A WOOD; AND THERE WAS HONEY UPON THE GROUND._ All they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey. The honey is described as "upon the ground," 'dropping' from the trees, and in honey-combs, indicating it to be bees' honey. 'Bees in the East are not, as in Eng... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE PEOPLE WERE COME INTO THE WOOD, BEHOLD, THE HONEY DROPPED; BUT NO MAN PUT HIS HAND TO HIS MOUTH: FOR THE PEOPLE FEARED THE OATH._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT JONATHAN HEARD NOT WHEN HIS FATHER CHARGED THE PEOPLE WITH THE OATH: WHEREFORE HE PUT FORTH THE END OF THE ROD THAT WAS IN HIS HAND, AND DIPPED IT IN AN HONEYCOMB, AND PUT HIS HAND TO HIS MOUTH; AND HIS EYES WERE ENLIGHTENED._ Jonathan ... put forth the end of the rod ... and dipped it in an h... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN ANSWERED ONE OF THE PEOPLE, AND SAID, THY FATHER STRAITLY CHARGED THE PEOPLE WITH AN OATH, SAYING, CURSED BE THE MAN THAT EATETH ANY FOOD THIS DAY. AND THE PEOPLE WERE FAINT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SMOTE THE PHILISTINES THAT DAY FROM MICHMASH TO AIJALON: AND THE PEOPLE WERE VERY FAINT._ THE PEOPLE WERE VERY FAINT.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PEOPLE FLEW UPON THE SPOIL, AND TOOK SHEEP, AND OXEN, AND CALVES, AND SLEW THEM ON THE GROUND: AND THE PEOPLE DID EAT THEM WITH THE BLOOD._ And ... flew upon the spoil. At evening, when the time fixed by Saul had expired, faint and famishing, the pursuers fell voraciously upon the cattle t... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THEY TOLD SAUL, SAYING, BEHOLD, THE PEOPLE SIN AGAINST THE LORD, IN THAT THEY EAT WITH THE BLOOD. AND HE SAID, YE HAVE TRANSGRESSED: ROLL A GREAT STONE UNTO ME THIS DAY._ Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day. [The Septuagint has: ek Geththaim kulisate moi lithon entautha... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SAUL SAID, DISPERSE YOURSELVES AMONG THE PEOPLE, AND SAY UNTO THEM, BRING ME HITHER EVERY MAN HIS OX, AND EVERY MAN HIS SHEEP, AND SLAY THEM HERE, AND EAT; AND SIN NOT AGAINST THE LORD IN EATING WITH THE BLOOD. AND ALL THE PEOPLE BROUGHT EVERY MAN HIS OX WITH HIM THAT NIGHT, AND SLEW THEM THERE... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE PEOPLE SAID UNTO SAUL, SHALL JONATHAN DIE, WHO HATH WROUGHT THIS GREAT SALVATION IN ISRAEL? GOD FORBID: AS THE LORD LIVETH, THERE SHALL NOT ONE HAIR OF HIS HEAD FALL TO THE GROUND; FOR HE HATH WROUGHT WITH GOD THIS DAY. SO THE PEOPLE RESCUED JONATHAN, THAT HE DIED NOT._ The people rescued... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAUL WENT UP FROM FOLLOWING THE PHILISTINES: AND THE PHILISTINES WENT TO THEIR OWN PLACE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO SAUL TOOK THE KINGDOM OVER ISRAEL, AND FOUGHT AGAINST ALL HIS ENEMIES ON EVERY SIDE, AGAINST MOAB, AND AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND AGAINST EDOM, AND AGAINST THE KINGS OF ZOBAH, AND AGAINST THE PHILISTINES: AND WHITHERSOEVER HE TURNED HIMSELF, HE VEXED THEM._ So Saul ... fought against al... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE GATHERED AN HOST, AND SMOTE THE AMALEKITES, AND DELIVERED ISRAEL OUT OF THE HANDS OF THEM THAT SPOILED THEM._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THE SONS OF SAUL WERE JONATHAN, AND ISHUI, AND MELCHISHUA: AND THE NAMES OF HIS TWO DAUGHTERS WERE THESE; THE NAME OF THE FIRSTBORN MERAB, AND THE NAME OF THE YOUNGER MICHAL:_ The sons of Saul were Jonathan (i:e., whom Yahweh gave). AND ISHUI, [Septuagint, Iessiou]. AND MELCHI-SHUA, [Septu... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE NAME OF SAUL'S WIFE WAS AHINOAM, THE DAUGHTER OF AHIMAAZ: AND THE NAME OF THE CAPTAIN OF HIS HOST WAS ABNER, THE SON OF NER, SAUL'S UNCLE._ Abner - i:e., father of a light [Septuagint, Abenneer]. ... NER - i:e., a light, a lamp; the grandfather of Saul.... [ Continue Reading ]