# How much better if the people ... that they found?

Jonathan uses this rhetorical question about a contrafactual situation to state that the people should have been allowed to eat. Alternate translation: "Our victory would have been better if the people had eaten freely today of the plunder that they took from their enemies." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo]])

# plunder

This word refers to the things the people had taken from the battle with their enemy.

# Because now the slaughter has not been great

Because the troops were not able to eat during the battle, as the day progressed, they became weaker. Because of this, they were not able to kill as many of the Philistines.