Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 3:19

19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence . And all that stood by him went out from him.

As if he had forgot or neglected some important business.

Either First, Whence they hewed stones: Or Secondly, The Twelve Stones which Ioshua set up there; by the sight whereof he was animated to his Work. Or, Thirdly, The Idols, as the Word also signifies, which that Heathen King might place there, either in spight and contempt to the Israelites who had that place in great Veneration: or, that he might ascribe his Conquest of the Land to his Idols, at the Israelites did to the true God, by setting up this Monument in the entrance or beginning of it.

Till my Servants be gone: whom he would not have acquainted with a business which he supposed to be of great and close importance.

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