Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Chronicles 12:15

15 These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks , and they put to flight all them of the vallies , both toward the east, and toward the west .

To wit, in Saul. time, when▪ it seems the Enemies of the Israelites had made an In[illegible: 1+ letters]oad and done some Mischiefs to the Israelites beyond Iordan, to whose Help these then came.

As it commonly did about that time. See Ios. 3. 15. & 4. 18. Ier. 49. 19. This is noted either as a Description of the Time when this was done, it being usual with Historians to note the Circumstances of great Actions: or as an Aggravation of the Fact. And possibly these being Men of great Nimbleness and Dexterity, did swim over Iordan through their ardent Desire to help their Brethren and to fight with their Enemies.

i. e. The People that lived in the Valleys or Deserts beyond Iordan, who, as it seems, when Saul was engaged against the Philistins, took that Advantage to fall upon the Israelites beyond Iordan.

Either 1. the People that lived more Eastward and remote from Iordan, and those who lived more Westward or nearer to it. Or 2. they made them fly several ways, some Eastward, some Westward, as they saw the way open for them. See Deut. 28. [illegible: 1+ letters], 25.

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