Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 13:17

17 Yǒu lüè bīng cóng Fēilìshì yíng zhōng chūlai , fēn wéi sān duì , yī duì wǎng é Fú là xiàng Shūyà dì qù ,

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 13:17 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 13:17

And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in
three companies
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.

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 13:17 In-Context

15 Sǎmǔĕr jiù qǐlai , cóng Jíjiǎ shàng dào Biànyǎmǐn de jī bǐ yà . Sǎoluó shǔ diǎn gēnsuí tāde , yuē yǒu liù bǎi rén .

16 Sǎoluó hé tā érzi Yuēnádān , bìng gēnsuí tāmende rén , dōu zhù zaì Biànyǎmǐn de Jiābā . dàn Fēilìshì rén ān yíng zaì mì mò .

17 Yǒu lüè bīng cóng Fēilìshì yíng zhōng chūlai , fēn wéi sān duì , yī duì wǎng é Fú là xiàng Shūyà dì qù ,

18 Yī duì wǎng Bǎihélún qù , yī duì wǎngxǐ bō yīn gǔ duìmiàn de dì jìng xiàng kuàngyĕ qù .

19 Nàshí , Yǐsèliè quán dì méiyǒu yī gè tiĕ jiàng . yīnwei Fēilìshì rén shuō , kǒngpà Xībólái rén zhìzào dāo qiāng .