Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The spoilers - " The devastator:" the same word is used of the destroying Angel Exodus 12:23. The verse describes the system adopted by the Philistines by which for a time they subjugated the Israelites. From their central camp at Michmash they sent out three bands to kill and lay waste and destroy. One took a northerly direction toward Ophrah - five miles east of Bethel, identified with "Ephrain" II Chronicles 13:19 and the modern "Taiyibeh," - and toward the land of Shual, possibly the same as Shalim I Samuel 9:4; the second westward to Beth-horon; and the third eastward, by the unknown valley of Zeboim, toward the wilderness, i. e., the Jordan valley, toward Jericho.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Samuel 13:17:
Joshua 18:11-28
Judges 15:4
1 Samuel 9:4
2 Samuel 18:2
Micah 1:10
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