1 Samuel 14:16

And the scouts of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and lo! the camp, melted away, hither and thither.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another.

In Context

15And there came to be a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people, the outposts and the spoilers, they too, trembled,—and the earth quaked, so it became a preternatural trembling.

17Then said Saul unto the people who were with him: Number, I pray you, and see who hath departed from us. So they numbered; and lo! Jonathan and his armour-bearer were missing.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 14:20And Saul and all the people that were with him gathered themselves together, and came as far as the host,—and lo! the sword of every man was against his fellow, an exceeding great confusion.

Psalms 58:7Let such men flow away like waters that disperse themselves: He prepareth his arrow, Like [grass] let them be cut down:

Isaiah 19:2And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians, And they shall fight—Every one against his brother and Every one against his neighbour,—City against city, and Kingdom against kingdom.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 14:2-16

Jonathan Smites the Philistines. ( b. c. 1067.) 1 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. 2 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; 3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the… Read the whole commentary →

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