John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 14:45
And the people said unto Saul ,.... Hearing such words, and filled with grief, pity, and sympathy for Jonathan, as Josephus F11 Antiqu. l. 6. c. 6. sect. 4. observes: shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel ? no, he shall not; what, such a man as he die, who, under God, has been the instrument of so great deliverance, who first began it himself with one man only with him, and has proceeded in it to the finishing of it? God forbid : this shall not be... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 14:36-46
Here is, I. Saul's boasting against the Philistines. He proposed, as soon as his soldiers had got their suppers, to pursue them all night, and not leave a man of them, 1 Sam. 14:36. Here he showed much zeal, but little discretion; for his army, thus fatigued, could as ill spare a night's sleep as a meal's meat. But it is common for rash and foolish men to consider nobody but themselves, and, so that they might but have their humour, not to care what hardships they put upon those that are under... read more