1 Samuël 13:17

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

trokken uit het kamp der Filistijnen drie benden stropers uit: de eerste wendde zich in de richting van Ofra naar de streek Sjual,

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En uit het leger der Filistijnen trokken drie benden om het land te overheren: de ene keerde zich langs den weg van Ofra naar het land Sual,

Staten Vertaling
En de verdervers gingen uit het leger der Filistijnen, in drie hopen; de ene hoop keerde zich op den weg naar Ofra, naar het land Sual;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in three companies: 1 Samuel 11:11

Ophrah: Joshua 18:23

Shual: Joshua 19:3

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 14:15 - the spoilers 2 Samuel 7:10 - as beforetime 2 Kings 5:2 - by companies Psalms 144:14 - no breaking in

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The spoilers - “The devastator:” the same word is used of the destroying Angel Exodus 12:23. The verse describes the system adopted by the Philistines by which for a time they subjugated the Israelites. From their central camp at Michmash they sent out three bands to kill and lay waste and destroy. One took a northerly direction toward Ophrah - five miles east of Bethel, identified with “Ephrain” 2 Chronicles 13:19 and the modern “Taiyibeh,” - and toward the land of Shual, possibly the same as Shalim 1 Samuel 9:4; the second westward to Beth-horon; and the third eastward, by the unknown valley of Zeboim, toward the wilderness, i. e., the Jordan valley, toward Jericho.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 13:17. The spoilers came out — The Philistines, finding that the Israelites durst not hazard a battle, divided their army into three bands, and sent them in three different directions to pillage and destroy the country. Jonathan profited by this circumstance, and attacked the remains of the army at Michmash, as we shall see in the succeeding chapter.