But Saul ordered, “No one shall be put to death this day, for today the LORD has worked salvation in Israel.”
We have here the improvement of the glorious victory which Saul had obtained, not the improvement of it abroad, though we take it for granted that the men of Jabesh-Gilead, having so narrowly saved their right eyes, would with them now discern the opportunity they had of avenging themselves upon these cruel enemies and disabling them from ever straitening them in like manner again; now...
Commenting on 1 Samuel 11:12-15
Then said Samuel to the people,.... Agreeing to what Saul had said, and in order to put them off from demanding the lives of the offenders, and willing to take them while they were in a good disposition: come, and let us go to Gilgal; which was the nearest place to them, on the other side Jordan, from which they now were, and where the...
And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day: for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel. (h) By showing mercy he thought to overcome their malice.