46 Then Saul stopped pursuing the Philistines, and they withdrew to their own land.
46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place.
46 Then Saul went up from pursuing the Philistines, and the Philistines went to their own place.
46 Saul pulled back from chasing the Philistines, and the Philistines went home.
46 Then Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, and the Philistines went to their own place.
46 Then Saul called back the army from chasing the Philistines, and the Philistines returned home.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Samuel 14:46
Commentary on 1 Samuel 14:36-46
(Read 1 Samuel 14:36-46)
If God turns away our prayer, we have reason to suspect it is for some sin harboured in our hearts, which we should find out, that we may put it away, and put it to death. We should always first suspect and examine ourselves; but an unhumbled heart suspects every other person, and looks every where but at home for the sinful cause of calamity. Jonathan was discovered to be the offender. Those most indulgent to their own sins are most severe upon others; those who most disregard God's authority, are most impatient when their own commands are slighted. Such as cast abroad curses, endanger themselves and their families. What do we observe in the whole of Saul's behaviour on this occasion, but an impetuous, proud, malignant, impious disposition? And do we not in every instance perceive that man, left to himself, betrays the depravity of his nature, and is enslaved to the basest tempers.