Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 15:12

12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel , and behold, he set him up a place , and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.

Not Mount Carmel, of which Iosh. 12. 22. but another Mountain or Town in the Tribe of Iudah; of which see I[illegible: 1+ letters]sh. 15. 55.

i. e. A Monument or Trophy of his Victory, as the same Hebrew word is used, 2 Sam. 18. 18. And this may be here Noted by way of censure, That he set it up not to God's honour, but to himself, i. e. to his own praise; which he minded in the first place, and afterwards went to Gilgal, as it here follows, to offer Sacrifice to God.

Marginal references: Heb. hand.