SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:30
¿Cuánto más si el pueblo hubiera hoy comido del despojo de sus enemigos que halló? ¿No se habría hecho ahora mayor estrago en los filisteos?
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 30. How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found ? etc.] That is, had they been, allowed eat freely of the provisions, of bread, wine, etc. they found in the enemy’s camp, they would have been much more refreshed and strengthened than it could be supposed he was with eating a little honey; if that had had such an effect upon him, of what service would a full meal have been to the people? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines ? the people would have had more strength to smite them, and would have pursued them with greater ardour and swiftness, and so have made a greater slaughter among them than they had; he intimates that Saul’s end would have been better answered by suffering the people to eat, than by forbidding them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 24-35 - Saul's severe order was very unwise; if it gained time, it los strength for the pursuit. Such is the nature of our bodies, that dail work cannot be done without daily bread, which therefore our Father in heaven graciously gives. Saul was turning aside from God, and now he begins to build altars, being then most zealous, as many are, for the form of godliness when he was denying the power of it.
Original Hebrew
אף 637 כי 3588 לוא 3863 אכל 398 אכל 398 היום 3117 העם 5971 משׁלל 7998 איביו 341 אשׁר 834 מצא 4672 כי 3588 עתה 6258 לא 3808 רבתה 7235 מכה 4347 בפלשׁתים׃ 6430
