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**men** . Septuagint reads this word in text.
**mount** = hill country.
**every man.** Hebrew. *'ish.* App-14 .

**Jonathan.** See note on [1 Samuel 18:1](../../../kjv/1-samuel/18/1) .

**Gilgal.** In the plain of Jordan, east of Jericho, good for water, remote from Philistines, and connected with sacred memories.

**thirty thousand . . . six** , &c. Multiples of six. See App-10 .
**as the sand** , &c. Figure of speech *Parcemia.* App-6 .

**men.** Hebrew. *'ish.* . App-14 .
**distressed** = pressed: i.e. into Saul's service. and. Note the Figure of speech *Polysyndeton.* App-6 .

**the Hebrews went over** . Figure of speech *Paronomasia ([Revelation 6](../../../kjv/revelation/6); [Revelation 6](../../../kjv/revelation/6)* ), *`ibrim `abru.*

**had appointed.** Some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, and Septuagint, read "said". Some codices read "appointed".

**offered** = offered up. See App-43 .

**behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* *App-6* *.*
**salute** = bless.

**the LORD** . Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**a** = the.

**thou hast not** . Some codices, with three early printed editions, and Vulgate, read "and hast". Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, read "because thou
**hast". God** . Hebrew. *Elohim* . App-4 .
**thy kingdom** . This possible only with God a sovereign.

**man** , &c. Hebrew. *'ish* . App-14 . Quoted in [Acts 13:22](../../../kjv/acts/13/22) .
**own heart** = his own pleasure. Compare [Psalms 89:20](../../../kjv/psalms/89/20) , [Psalms 89:21](../../../kjv/psalms/89/21) .
**captain** = leader, or representative.

**Gilgal.** The Septuagint preserves *a Homceoteleuton* here, adding after "Gilgal [and the rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the army when they arrived from] Gilgal "; the eye of the scribe going back to this last "Gilgal" instead of to the one in [1 Samuel 13:15](../../../kjv/1-samuel/13/15) .
**present** = found.
**men** . Hebrew. *'ish.* App-14 .

**Gibeah** . Probably the Geba of [1 Samuel 13:3](../../../kjv/1-samuel/13/3) .

**no smith** . This explains why Ehud had to make his own dagger ([Judges 3:16](../../../kjv/judges/3/16) ); why Shamgar had only an ox-goad ([Judges 3:31](../../../kjv/judges/3/31) ); why Samson "had nothingin his hand" ([Judges 14:5-6](../../../kjv/judges/14/5-6) ); and why "not a shield or spear among 40,000 in Israel" ([Judges 5:9](../../../kjv/judges/5/9) ). In other days we read of how many "drew sword".
**land.** Some codices read "bounds".

**coulter** . Anglo-Saxon = *a cutter;* hence, a plough-share.
**mattock** = a kind of pickaxe, with broad instead of pointed ends.

**with Saul** = with those who were with Saul and Jonathan: a picked force.

**garrison** = post, or permanent camp.
**passage** = pass.

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