It happened, while Saul talked to the priest, that the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said to the priest, Withdraw your hand.
"Saul is accompanied by Ahijah, a member of the rejected priestly house of Eli (1 Samuel 14:3), and this first mention of an Elide after the disasters which befell Eli’s family in chap. 4 triggers the response ’rejected by Yhwh.’ Lest the point be missed, it is reinforced by the odd and needless genealogical reference to Ichabod, Ahijah’s uncle, picking up on 1 Samuel 4:21-22, and reminding the reader that ’the glory has departed.’ His own royal glory gone, where else would we expect Saul to be than with a relative of ’Glory gone’? The axes which here intersect, the rejection of Saul and the rejection of the Elide priesthood, will do so again in 1 Samuel 22:11-19, when Saul will bloodily fulfill the prophecy of 1 Samuel 2:31-33, wreaking Yhwh’s will on the Elides." [Note: David Jobling, "Saul’s Fall and Jonathan’s Rise: Tradition and Redaction in 1 Samuel 14:1-46," Journal of Biblical Literature 95:3 (1976):368-69.] 