1 Samuel 14:30-32

The Voice

³⁰Wouldn’t it have been better if our soldiers had been free to eat some of the food they had taken from the enemy? Our slaughter of the Philistines is not as great as it could be because we are too weak to pursue it!

³¹So after this victory, after the Israelites had crushed the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, they were faint. ³²When evening came and they were permitted to eat, they seized the spoils of battle, took sheep and oxen and calves, slaughtered them on the ground, and ate them with their blood, which is strictly forbidden by the law of Moses.

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