John Gill's Exposition on 1 Samuel 14:17

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, etc.] To some of the officers, particularly the muster master; number now, and see who is gone from us: for he concluded that this agitation and confusion in the host of the Philistines were occasioned by an enterprise of some of his men, who by some stratagem or another had thrown them into this disorder: and when they had numbered: which was soon done, being but six hundred men in all: behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there; from whence it might be inferred, that this commotion the Philistines were in was occasioned by an onset of theirs on the outer guards or sentinels of their garrison or army, which had alarmed them.

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