Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.
Ver. 4. And all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.] This was to "weep with those that weep." Rom 12:15 And if in addition they "turned again unto the Lord, that their" distressed "brethren might" the sooner "find compassion," as 2 Chronicles 30:9, they did best of all. God, in such a case, "will restore comforts unto his mourners." Isa 57:18