1 Samuel 11:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Into three companies; that so invading them on several sides with a great force, he might both strike them with the greater terror, and prevent their escape. In the morning watch; having marched all the day and night before it.

1 Samuel 11:11

11 And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.