2 Samuel 1:21

Let there be, &c. — This is no proper imprecation; but a passionate representation of the horror which he conceived at this publick loss; which was such, as if he thought every person or thing which contributed to it, were fit to bear the tokens of divine displeasure, such as this is, when the earth wants the necessary influences of dew and rain. Fields of offerings — That is, fruitful fields, which may produce fair and goodly fruits fit to be offered to God. Vilely — Dishonourably: for it was a great reproach to any soldier, to cast away or lose his shield. Cast away — By themselves, that they might flee more swiftly as the Israelites did, and Saul with the rest. As though, &c. — As if he had been no more, than a common soldier: he was exposed to the same kind of death and reproach as they were.