SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:17
Y salieron del campamento de los filisteos tres escuadrones a destruir la tierra. Un escuadrón marchaba por el camino de Ofra hacia la tierra de Sual.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 13:17
Verse 17. The spoilers came out] The Philistines, finding that the Israelites durst not hazard a battle, divided their army into three bands, and sent them in three different directions to pillage and destroy the country. Jonathan profited by this circumstance, and attacked the remains of the army at Michmash, as we shall see in the succeeding chapter.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 17. And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies , etc.] Saul not daring to come out to fight them, and there being none throughout the land to oppose them, they sent out three companies of soldiers to ravage and spoil the country; of so little use and service was a king to Israel, they were so extremely desirous of; and this was suffered, to convince them of their vain confidence in him, and that their trust ought to be in the Lord their God; never was their country more exposed to rapine and violence than now: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah ; a city in the land of Benjamin, of which (see Joshua 18:23) and lay southwest from Michmash, where the army of the Philistines were: unto the land of Shual : which the Targum paraphrases, “the land of the south;” it seems to have had its name from the multitude of foxes in it, Shual signifying a fox.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 15-23 - See how politic the Philistines were when they had power; they not onl prevented the people of Israel from making weapons of war, but oblige them to depend upon their enemies, even for instruments of husbandry How impolitic Saul was, who did not, in the beginning of his reign, se himself to redress this. Want of true sense always accompanies want of grace. Sins which appear to us very little, have dangerou consequences. Miserable is a guilty, defenceless nation; much mor those who are destitute of the whole armour of God __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויצא 3318 המשׁחית 7843 ממחנה 4264 פלשׁתים 6430 שׁלשׁה 7969 ראשׁים 7218 הראשׁ 7218 אחד 259 יפנה 6437 אל 413 דרך 1870 עפרה 6084 אל 413 ארץ 776 שׁועל׃ 7777
