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1 Samuel 14:36-38
New English Translation
1 Samuel 14:36-38
New English Translation
36 Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines at night; we will rout[a] them until the break of day.[b] We won’t leave any of them alive!”[c] They replied, “Do whatever seems best to you.”[d] But the priest said, “Let’s approach God here.” 37 So Saul asked God, “Should I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he did not answer him that day.
38 Then Saul said, “All you leaders of the army come here. Find out[e] how this sin occurred today.
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- 1 Samuel 14:36 tn Heb “plunder.”
- 1 Samuel 14:36 tn Heb “until the light of the morning.”
- 1 Samuel 14:36 tn Heb “and there will not be left among them a man.”
- 1 Samuel 14:36 tn Heb “all that is good in your eyes.” So also in v. 40.
- 1 Samuel 14:38 tn Heb “know and see.”
1 Samuel 14:36-38
New International Version
1 Samuel 14:36-38
New International Version
36 Saul said, “Let us go down and pursue the Philistines by night and plunder them till dawn, and let us not leave one of them alive.”
“Do whatever seems best to you,” they replied.
But the priest said, “Let us inquire(A) of God here.”
37 So Saul asked God, “Shall I go down and pursue the Philistines? Will you give them into Israel’s hand?” But God did not answer(B) him that day.
38 Saul therefore said, “Come here, all you who are leaders of the army, and let us find out what sin has been committed(C) today.
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