1. 1 Samuel 14:16 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What does it mean that the multitude was dispersing here and there?

1 Samuel 14:16 (ESV)

16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude was dispersing here and there.

The expression dispersing here and there is also translated as melting away which is a metaphor used to describe a full retreat (see Isaiah 14:31).1