They struck of the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint;
"And Saul built an altar"  (1 Samuel 14:35).  Saul evidently used that great stone upon which the animals were slain as part of an altar to the Lord.  However, "He only began to build that altar, but did not finish it  (1 Corinthians 27:24), because of his haste to pursue the Philistines that night."[21]