Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Samuel 1:20

20 Tell it not in Gath , publish it not in the streets of Askelon: lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoyce, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

This is not a Precept, but a Poetical wish; whereby he doth not so much desire, that this might not be done, which he knew to be vain and impossible; as, express his great sorrow, because it was, and would be done, to the great dishonour of God, and of his People.

He mentions these, because it was the custome of Women in those times and places to celebrate those Victories which their Men obtained, with Triumphant Songs and Dances; as Exod. 15. Iudg. 11. 34. 1 Sam. 18. 6.

Marginal references: Mic. 1. 10.