Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 13:6
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1 Samuel13:6
6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait : (for the people were distressed ) then the people did hide themselves in caves , and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
Notwithstanding their former presumption, that if they had a King, they should be free from all such straits. And hereby God intended to teach them the Vanity of all Carnal confidence in Men; and that they did not one jotless need the help and favour of God now, than they did before, when they had no King.
They were not mistaken in their apprehensions of Danger, as men oft are, for they were really in great Danger, their Enemies Host far exceeding theirs, both in Number, and Order, and Courage, and Arms.
Whereof there were divers in those parts for this very use, as we read in Iosephus, and in the Holy Scripture.
Marginal references: Judg. 6. [illegible: 1+ letters].
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