Verse 47
A GENERAL SUMMARY OF SAUL'S WARS
"When Saul had taken the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, against the Ammonites, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines; wherever he turned, he put them to the worse. And he did valiantly, and smote the Amelekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them."
The chronology of events mentioned in this chapter is impossible of any adequate solution. This little paragraph is a summary of Saul's forty years of fighting against Israel's enemies. If every event in that period had been described as fully as that episode just mentioned, it would have required thousands of pages. It was only the special moral, religious, and theological implications that led to the more complete details in this and in the following chapters.
The inspired author here freely admitted Saul's ability as a "valiant" soldier and his ability to defeat God's enemies. Thus, the reason assigned by the Lord in his appointment of Saul to deliver the people from the Philistines was indeed a good one.
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