The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man who eats any food until it be evening, and I be avenged on my enemies. So none of the people tasted food.
In this connection, we cannot understand how any scholar could write that, "So far from Saul's oath being, rash, or arbitrary, it was the logical expression of his carefulness for divine things."[18]