It was not long ago that the Philistines were soundly beaten, and put to the worse, before Israel, and they would have been totally routed if Saul’s rashness had not prevented; but here we have them making head again. Observe, I. How they defied Israel with their armies , 1 Sam. 17:1. They made a descent upon the Israelites’ country, and possessed themselves, as it should seem, of some part of it,...