Commentary Critical and Explanatory
1 Samuel 14:31
And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint. The people were very faint.
And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint. The people were very faint.
Verse 1 Samuel 14:31. _THEY SMOTE THE PHILISTINES - FROM MISHMASH TO AIJALON_] The distance Calmet states to be three or four leagues....
AIJALON. - The modern Yalo. It lies upon the side of a hill to the south of a fine valley which opens from between the two Bethhorons right down to the western plain of the Philistines, exactly on the...
7. JONATHAN'S HEROIC DEED OF FAITH CHAPTER 14 _ 1. Jonathan's victory (1 Samuel 14:1)_ 2. Saul's adjuration and Jonathan's deed (1 Samuel 14:24) 3. Saul's first altar and unanswered inquiry ...
The pursuit continued as far as Aijalon. When it stopped, the exhausted people flew upon the cattle and sheep and ate them with the blood, a ritual sin (Genesis 9:4 *, Leviticus 17:10 *), at which Sau...
The sin of the people 31. _from Michmash to Aijalon_ See note on 1 Samuel 14:23....
Saul's Ill-advised Oath. 1 Samuel 14:24-46 24 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...
JONATHAN'S EXPLOIT. THE BATTLE OF MICHMASH. A SUMMARY OF SAUL'S REIGN 3. Ahiah] RV 'Ahijah,' probably merely another form of Ahimelech (1 Samuel 21:1). Melech (king) was one of the titles of Jah or J...
AIJALON] see on Judges 1:35. It was the natural route by which the defeated Philistines would retreat to their own country....
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 14 V1 A young man carried Jonathan’s *armour. Jonathan was Saul’s son. One day, Jonathan said to the young man, ‘Let us go across to the *Phil...
FROM MICHMASH TO AIJALON. — The battle and pursuit had then extended some twenty miles of country. Again the extreme weariness of the Israelites is mentioned. Aijalon, the modern Yälo, is some eightee...
וַ יַּכּ֞וּ בַּ † יֹּ֤ום הַ הוּא֙...
CHAPTER XX _ SAUL'S WILFULNESS._ 1 Samuel 14:24. THAT Saul was now suffering in character under the influence of the high position and great power to which he had been raised, is only too apparent f...
VICTORY SHADOWED BY SAUL'S ERRORS 1 Samuel 14:16 Saul's unwise prohibition had a terrible sequel: first, in the exhaustion of his troops; and, second, in the rushing of the hungry upon the spoil with...
Here we have a picture of Saul, with a part of the army about him, remaining idle in Gibeah. His son Jonathan moved to action by his sense of the degradation of his people, and his conviction of the s...
_Aialon, in the tribe of Dan. It might be about ten miles from Machmas._...
(24) В¶ 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...
We have already seen that the desire and deliberate decision of the people for a king was a direct blow at the government of God in Israel; but the time was come to permit the will of the people to ha...
But faith in God is always blest; and if God has shewn the effect of unbelief, He also shews its folly, since wherever faith is found, there all His strength is displayed; and then it is the enemy who...
AND THEY SMOTE THE PHILISTINES THAT DAY FROM MICHMASH TO AIJALON,.... Michmash was the place where the camp of the Philistines was when Jonathan first attacked them, and from whence they fled, and the...
And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint. Ver. 31. _From Michmash to Aijalon._] A city in the tribe of Dan, Jos 19:42 twelve miles distant from...
1 Ionathan, vnwitting to his father, the Priest, or the people, goeth and miraculously smiteth the Philistines garrison. 15 A diuine terrour maketh them beate themselues. 17 Saul not staying the Pri...
And they smote the Philistines that day, those who had not fled toward Beth-aven, FROM MICHMASH TO AIJALON, far in the western foothills; AND THE PEOPLE WERE VERY FAINT, weary to the point of utter ex...
Saul's Unwise Adjuration...
The Philistines seemed content to intimidate Israel with their tremendous show of strength, rather than to attack Saul. One man, however, is not to be intimidated. Jonathan, in the face of Philistine...
24-35 Saul's severe order was very unwise; if it gained time, it lost strength for the pursuit. Such is the nature of our bodies, that daily work cannot be done without daily bread, which therefore ou...
AIJALON; either that in Dan, JOSHUA 19:42; or rather, that in Judah, 2 CHRONICLES 11:10....
1 Samuel 14:31 back H5221 (H8686) Philistines H6430 day H3117 Michmash H4363 Aijalon H357 people H5971 very H
THE PEOPLE SIN BY EATING THE BLOOD OF SLAIN BEASTS, AND SAUL ERECTS A PRIMITIVE PLACE FOR SLAUGHTER (1 SAMUEL 14:31). A further consequence of Saul's rash vow is now seen. Having been deprived of food...
SAUL'S MEN ARE HINDERED BY A RASH OATH MADE BY SAUL, WHILE JONATHAN WHO KNEW NOTHING OF IT BREAKS THE OATH (1 SAMUEL 14:23 A). The contrast between the spiritually dead ritualist and the true man of f...
1 Samuel 14 These were evil days for the people of Israel. But it was in these dark days that Jonathan shone so famous. It is yet true that difficulties prove our mettle, and that the greater the har...
CONTENTS: Jonathan's great victory over the Philistines. CHARACTERS: God, Jonathan, armor-bearer, Saul, Ahiah, Abner. CONCLUSION: Let this strengthen the weak and encourage the timid, that no matter...
1 Samuel 14:2. _Under a pomegranate tree._ רמן _Rimmon,_ a rock in the tribe of Judah. Joshua 15:32; Judges 20:47. This reading agrees best with the position of Saul's army, in a place of safety....
_And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people._ GREAT ISSUES HANG ON A KING’S RASH WORD One little sentence, spoken in a moment of passion by King Henry the Second,...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 14:1 This chapter focuses on Saul’s son Jonathan, who will become a friend of David. Jonathan’s act of trust in this chapter is sandwiched between two examples of Saul’s diso...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES 1 Samuel 14:18. “BRING HITHER THE ARK OF GOD.” “Many expositors, thinking it extremely improbable that the ark had been removed from Kirjath-jearim, where it was afterwa...
EXPOSITION JONATHAN SMITES THE PHILISTINE GAR-BISON (1 Samuel 14:1). 1 SAMUEL 14:1 NOW IT CAME TO PASS UPON A DAY. Literally, "And there was a day, and
Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man that bear his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison on the other side. But he did not tell h...
Joshua 10:12; Joshua 19:42...