Teks -- 1 Kings 20:27 (NET)

20:27 When the Israelites had mustered and had received their supplies, they marched out to face them in battle. When the Israelites deployed opposite them, they were like two small flocks of goats, but the Syrians filled the land.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: 1Ki 20:27 - And went

Being encouraged by the remembrance of their former success, and an expectation of assistance from God again.

Wesley: 1Ki 20:27 - And pitched

Probably upon some hilly ground, where they might secure themselves, and watch for advantage against their enemies; which may be the reason why the Syrians durst not assault them before the seventh day, 1Ki 20:29.

Wesley: 1Ki 20:27 - Little flocks

Few, and weak, being also for conveniency of fighting, and that they might seem to be more than they were, divided into two bodies.

JFB: 1Ki 20:27-31 - like two little flocks of kids

Goats are never seen in large flocks, or scattered, like sheep; and hence the two small but compact divisions of the Israelite force are compared to goats, not sheep. Humanly speaking, that little handful of men would have been overpowered by numbers. But a prophet was sent to the small Israelite army to announce the victory, in order to convince the Syrians that the God of Israel was omnipotent everywhere, in the valley as well as on the hills. And, accordingly, after the two armies had pitched opposite each other for seven days, they came to an open battle. One hundred thousand Syrians lay dead on the field, while the fugitives took refuge in Aphek, and there, crowding on the city walls, they endeavored to make a stand against their pursuers; but the old walls giving way under the incumbent weight, fell and buried twenty-seven thousand in the ruins. Ben-hadad succeeded in extricating himself, and, with his attendants, sought concealment in the city, fleeing from chamber to chamber; or, as some think it, an inner chamber, that is, a harem; but seeing no ultimate means of escape, he was advised to throw himself on the tender mercies of the Israelitish monarch.

TSK: 1Ki 20:27 - were all present // like two

were all present : or, were victualled, Jos 1:11; Jdg 7:8

like two : Deu 32:30; Jdg 6:5; 1Sa 13:5-8, 1Sa 14:2; 2Ch 32:7, 2Ch 32:8; Ecc 9:11

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 1Ki 20:27 - Were all present // Went against them // Pitched before them // Like two little flocks of kids

Were all present i.e. all the forces of the Israelites were here gathered together to oppose the Syrians; so if these had been conquered, all had been lost.

Went against them being persuaded and encouraged so to do; partly to invent the mischiefs of a siege in Samaria, and the waste of all the rest of their country; and partly by the remembrance of their former success, and an expectation of the same assistance from God again.

Pitched before them probably upon some hilly ground, where they might secure themselves, and watch for advantage against their enemies; which may be the reason why the Syrians durst not assault them before the seventh day, 1Ki 20:29 .

Like two little flocks of kids i.e. few, and weak, and heartless; being also for conveniency of fighting, and that they might seem to be more than they were, divided into two bodies.

Haydock: 1Ki 20:27 - Victuals // Goats

Victuals. Hebrew also, "they were all present." Chaldean, "ready." Syriac, "in battle array." ---

Goats. They were comparatively so contemptible, ver. 15. (Haydock) ---

At the same time, Josaphat could muster above a million warriors; for piety makes kingdoms prosper. (Salien)

Gill: 1Ki 20:27 - And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present // and went against them // and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids // but the Syrians filled the country

And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present,.... The same as before; the two hundred and thirty two young men of the princes of the provinces, and 7000 of the people, not one was missing:

and went against them; out of Samaria, towards Aphek:

and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids: being few and weak, the two hundred and thirty two young men in one body, and the 7000 in another:

but the Syrians filled the country: with their men, their horses, and their chariots.