1 Samuel 13:6

Straitened, the people form the northern provinces, and provisions being cut off, by the immense army of the Philistines. (Calmet) --- Providence was pleased to convince the people that, though they had been able to muster so large a force against the Ammonites, at so short a warning, they must not depend on the efforts of their new king. (Haydock) --- He suffered any of the army to retire, as he sent away most of Gedeon's soldiers, that the whole glory of the victory might be attributed to him. (Salien) --- Dens. So the Chaldean. Some explain the Hebrew, "high places (Haydock) or towers." (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "ditches or holes." (Menochius) --- Greek: Bothrois. In that country there are many spacious caverns, chap. xxiv., and Josue x. (Haydock)