Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 14:47

47 ¶ So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah , and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them .

i. e. Recovered it, and Resumed the Administration of it, after he had in a manner lost it; partly, by Samuel's Sentence, chap. 13. 14. and partly, by the Philistines, who had almost turned him out of it. But now being encouraged by this success, he returns to the exercise of his Kingly Office.

Which lay not far from Damascus. See 2 Sam. 8. 5.

Heb. He condemned them, he treated them like wicked People, and Enemies to God and his People: or, he punished them.

Marginal references: Chap. 11. 11.