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1 Samuel 14:37

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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.

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1 Samuel 14:37 in other translations

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.

1 Samuel 14:37 · World English Bible

1 Samuel 14:37 in context

  1. 35And Saul built an altar unto Jehovah: the same was the first altar that he built unto Jehovah.
  2. 36And 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 whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.
  3. 37And 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.
  4. 38And Saul said, Draw nigh hither, all ye chiefs of the people; and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.
  5. 39For, as Jehovah liveth, who 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.