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Let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you: this is no proper imprecation; which he had no reason to inflict upon those harmless mountains; but only a passionate representation of the horror which he conceived at this public 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 blessed and necessary influences of dew and rain.
Nor fields of offerings, i.e. fruitful fields, which may produce fair and goodly fruits fit to be offered unto God.
The shield of the mighty; the shields of the valiant men of Israel.
Vilely dishonourably; for it was a great reproach to any soldier to cast away or lose his shield.
Cast away to wit, by themselves, that they might flee more swiftly away, as the Israelites did, and Saul with the rest; as is said, 1Sa_31:1,2.
As though he had not been anointed with oil; as if he had been no more nor better than a common soldier: he was exposed to the same kind of death and reproach as they were.