And it was told. — Our version rightly supplies these words. They are found in all the versions, and there can be no doubt that the word vayyuggar (Genesis 22:20) has in this case accidentally dropped out of the text.
They compassed him in. — They apparently did not know in what house he was. The word might mean “they went round the city” (Psalms 59:7), i.e., to look for him.
Were quiet — i.e., they made no attack. Thinking that they had secured him, they seem to have retired to rest. (Comp. Acts 9:23-24.)