SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:18
Otro escuadrón marchaba hacia Bet-horón, y el tercer escuadrón marchaba hacia la región que mira al valle de Zeboim hacia el desierto.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 18. And another company turned the way to Bethhoron , etc.] Of which name there were two cities, the upper and nether, and both in the tribe of Ephraim, of which (see Joshua 16:3,5) this lay northwest from the camp of the Philistines at Michmash; eight miles from it, according to Bunting f253 : and another company turned to the way of the border, that looketh towards the valley of Zeboim, toward the wilderness ; some take this to be the Zeboim which was destroyed with Sodom and Gomorrah; and the wilderness, the wilderness of Jordan; but as that, so the valley in which it stood, was turned into a bituminous lake; this seems to be a city in the land of Benjamin, ( Nehemiah 11:34) near to which was a valley, and this towards the wilderness of Jericho, and so lay eastward; the Targum calls it the valley of vipers, perhaps from its being infested with many; and so David de Pomis says it is the name of a place where plenty of serpents were found, and which he says were called so because of the variety of colours in them; with which agrees Kimchi’s note on the place; they seem to mean serpents spotted f255 , as if they were painted and dyed of various colours, as the Hebrew word which is thus paraphrased signifies: according to Bunting f256 , it was eight miles from Michmash.
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
והראשׁ 7218 אחד 259 יפנה 6437 דרך 1870 בית חרון 1032 והראשׁ 7218 אחד 259 יפנה 6437 דרך 1870 הגבול 1366 הנשׁקף 8259 על 5921 גי 1516 הצבעים 6650 המדברה׃ 4057
