4Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.
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And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.
And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)The Ammonites were bad neighbours to those tribes of Israel that lay next them, though descendants from just Lot, and, for that reason, dealt civilly with by Israel. See Deut. 2:19. Jephthah, in his time, had humbled them, but now the sin of Israel had put them into a capacity to make head again, and avenge that quarrel. The city of Jabesh-Gilead had been, some ages ago, destroyed by Israel’s swor…
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