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They that went over Jordan, to wit, in Saul’s time, when, it seems, the enemies of the Israelites had made an inroad, and done some mischiefs to the Israelites beyond Jordan, to whose help these then came.
When it had overflown all his banks; as it commonly did about that time. See Jos_3:15 4:18 Jer_49:19. This is noted either as a description of the time when this was done, it being usual with historians to note the circumstances of great actions; or as an aggravation of the fact. And possibly these, being men of great nimbleness and dexterity, did swim over Jordan, through their ardent desire to help their brethren, and to fight with their enemies.
All them of the valleys, i.e. the people that lived in the valleys or deserts beyond Jordan, who, as it seems, when Saul was engaged against the Philistines, took that advantage to fall upon the Israelites beyond Jordan.
Toward the east, and toward the west; either,
1. The people that lived more eastward, and remote from Jordan, and those who lived more westward, or nearer to it. Or,
2. Them made they fly several ways, some eastward, some westward, as they saw the way open for them. See Deu_28:7,25.