Saul said to Ahijah, Bring here the ark of God. For the ark of God was [there] at that time with the children of Israel.
      I. The Philistines were, by the power of God, set against one another. They melted away like snow before the sun, and went on beating down one another (1 Samuel 14:16; 1 Samuel 14:16), for (1 Samuel 14:20; 1 Samuel 14:20) every man's sword was against his fellow. When they fled for fear, instead of turning back upon those that chased them, they reckoned those only their enemies that stood in their way, and treated them accordingly. The Philistines were very secure, because all the swords and spears were in their hands. Israel had none except what Saul and Jonathan had. But now God showed them the folly of that confidence, by making their own swords and spears the instruments of their own destruction, and more fatal in their own hands than if they had been in the hands of Israel. See the like done, Judges 7:22; 2 Chronicles 20:23.