Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 14:15

15 And there was trembling in the host, in the field , and among all the people : the garison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked : so it was a very great trembling.

A great Consternation; partly, from this unexpected and prodigious Slaughter, which made them suspect, there was more than Man in the Case; and that the Lord (of whose infinite Power they had had former experience) was come forth to Fight against them; and partly, from the Lord, who took away their Spirits and Strength, and struck them with Fear and Amazement.

i. e. In the whole Host which was there in the Field.

i. e. Among all the rest of their Forces, as well those in the Garison, (as it is here explained in the following words) at Michmash, as the Spoilers, mentioned chap. 13. 17. the report of this Prodigy, and with it the Terror of God speedily passing from one to another.

Either 1. Metaphorically and Hyperbolically, the whole Land; i. e. the Inhabitants of the Land: to wit, of the Philistines, Trembled. Or rather, 2. Properly, God sent an Earthquake among them, which probably overthrew their Tents and Chariots, and destroyed many of their Persons, and scattered the whole Host, making them to flee away for their lives.

Marginal references: Heb. a trembling of God.; Gen. 35. 5.