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1 Samuel 14:37

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Saul asked counsel of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he didn’t answer him that day.

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1 Samuel 14:37 in other translations

And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day.

1 Samuel 14:37 · American Standard Version

1 Samuel 14:37 in context

  1. 35Saul built an altar to Yahweh. This was the first altar that he built to Yahweh.
  2. 36Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines by night, and take plunder among them until the morning light, and let’s not leave a man of them.”
    They said, “Do whatever seems good to you.”
    Then the priest said, “Let’s draw near here to God.”
  3. 37Saul asked counsel of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he didn’t answer him that day.
  4. 38Saul said, “Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin has been today.
  5. 39For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.