1 Samuel 7:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

There was peace An agreement for the cessation of all acts of hostility. Between Israel and the Amorites That is, the Canaanites, often called Amorites, because these were formerly the most valiant of all those nations, and the first enemies which the Israelites met with, when they went to take possession of their land. They made this peace with the Canaanites, that they might be more at leisure to oppose the Philistines, now their most potent enemies.

1 Samuel 7:14

14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.