14. Zelah. A town of Benjamin (Joshua 18:28). It has not yet been identified but was probably near Gibeah, the ancestral home of Saul (see 459).
God was intreated. 2 Sam. 24:25; Gen. 25:21; Isa. 19:22 for similar expressions. Because the text states that “God was intreated” we need not therefore conclude that David had followed God’s plan for atoning for Saul’s evil deed. The Lord might measure an act by the sincerity of heart that prompted it, even though He condemned the act itself.