Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Samuel 14:46
Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place.
Saul went up from following the Philistines; partly because he was discouraged by Gods refusing to answer him; and partly because his delays had given them occasion to secure themselves.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Then Saul went up from following the Philistines,…. Returned home to his own city, finding that he could get no answer from the Lord, whether he should pursue further or not, and losing the time and opportunity of doing it, by examining into the affair of his son, and casting lots to find it out:
and the Philistines went to their own place; their country and cities, such of them as remained, who were not cut off by their own and the sword of the Israelites. Josephus n says, Saul killed about 60,000 of them. It seems to be the will of God that they should not now be utterly destroyed, that they might be a rod of correction in his hand, to chastise the people of Israel hereafter.
n Antiqu. l. 6. c. 6. sect. 5.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(46) Then Saul went up from following the Philistines.Saul recognised now that the fault which caused the oracle of the Urim and Thummim to keep silence was his, and not Jonathans. He seems quietly to have acquiesced with Ahijahs evident reluctance to countenance a public pursuit; he drew off his forces then from the direction of the enemy, and went up, no doubt, to Gibeah; but the power of the Philistines for the time seems to have been utterly broken, and they retreated to their own districts along the sea coasts.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
1Sa 14:46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place.
Ver. 46. Then Saul went up. ] Seeing that God was displeased, and the people discontented, and the time now past.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Reciprocal: 1Sa 17:1 – gathered