The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[slave]

[h=1](1 Samuel 14:21): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]21 Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines previously, who went up with them all around in the camp, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 14:22 (KJV)
Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 14:23 (KJV)
So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Bethaven.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 14:24 (KJV)
And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 14:25 (ESV)
Now when all the people came to the forest, behold, there was honey on the ground.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 14:26 (ERV)
And when the people were come unto the forest, behold, the honey dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 14:27 (ESV)
But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath, so he put out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes became bright.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 14:28 (KJV)
Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.

 

[slave]

[h=1](1 Samuel 14:29): .....New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]29 Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. See now, how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey.

 

[mario1001]

1 Samuel 14:30 "How much better it would have been if the men had eaten today some of the plunder they took from their enemies. Would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been even greater?"

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 14:31 (KJV)
And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 14:32 (KJV)
[SUP]32 [/SUP] And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 14:33 (KJV)
Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 14:34 (ESV)
And Saul said, “Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, ‘Let every man bring his ox or his sheep and slaughter them here and eat, and do not sin against the LORD by eating with the blood.’” So every one of the people brought his ox with him that night and they slaughtered them there.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 14:35 (KJV)
And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 14:36 (NASB)
[SUP]36 [/SUP] Then Saul said, "Let us go down after the Philistines by night and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them." And they said, "Do whatever seems good to you." So the priest said, "Let us draw near to God here."

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 14:37 (KJV)
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.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 14:38 (KJV)
And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 14:39 (KJV)
For, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 14:40 (KJV)
Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.