After him was Shammah the son of Agee, a Hararite. The Philistines had gathered together into a troop where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. Troop. Hebrew Lachaya, has been much controverted: but it appears to be the name of Lechi, or Lehi, “the jaw-bone,” (Josephus and Septuagint Complut.) so memorable for the exploit of Samson. Bochart Anim. p. 1. B. ii. 15.—Vulg. lit. in statione, “in a station.” Some copies of the Septuagint “against wild beasts;” “To hunt wild beasts.” Syr. and Arab. But it is most probably the name of a place. Calmet.—Lentils. 1 Par. Barley seems more correct, as the field could not be full of both at the same time; ( Bible.) and barley is of more general utility. Kennic.—Yet some would assert, that there was barley in one part and lentils in the other. Buxtorf, and so forth