OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 38

1 Samuel 14:38

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Saul said, “Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people, and know and see in whom this sin has been today.

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1 Samuel 14:38 in context

1 Samuel 14:35–41

35

Saul built an altar to the LORD. This was the first altar that he built to the LORD.

36

Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines by night, and take plunder among them until the morning light. 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.”

37

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.

38
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Saul said, “Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people, and know and see in whom this sin has been today.

39

For as the LORD 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.

40

Then he said to all Israel, “You be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.”

The people said to Saul, “Do what seems good to you.”

41

Therefore Saul said to the LORD, the God of Israel, “Show the right.”

Jonathan and Saul were chosen, but the people escaped.

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