5The forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-15)We must here take notice, I. Of the goodness of God in restraining the Philistines, who had a vast army of valiant men in the field, from falling upon that little handful of timorous trembling people that Saul had with him, whom they would easily have swallowed up at once. It is an invisible power that sets bounds to the malice of the church’s enemies, and suffers them not to do that which we shou…
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