Runners who were swift-footed and could travel long distances were important and well-known people (Compare to 2 Samuel 18:19–31). Ther…

And there ran a man of Benjamin. —The Rabbinical tradition relates that this messenger was Saul, who snatched from Goliat…

And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army
Out of the rank in which he was, before the whole army was quite bro…

The defeat of the army was very distre ing to Eli as a judge; the news of the death of his two sons, to whom he had been so indulgent, and who, as …