“Then you will go on forward from there, and you will come to the oak of Tabor. Three men will meet you there going up to God to Bethel: one carrying three young goats, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a container of wine.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 3. Thabor, very distant from the famous mountain ( Calmet.) in Zabulon. Menochius.—Bethel. Where there was at that time an altar of God; it being one of the places where Samuel judged Israel, ( Challoner.) and which had always been considered as a place of devotion, since Jacob had his vision. Genesis 28:19. It lay to the east of Gabaa, so that Saul might easily meet these pilgrims. Calmet.—Wine, for libations, as the other things were for a sacrifice and feast, as well as for presents to the officiating priests.