Then one of the people answered, and said, “Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ ” So the people were faint.
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Then one of the people answered, and said, “Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ ” So the people were faint.
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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.
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Then answered one of the people, and said: 'Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying: Cursed be the man that eateth food this day; and the people are faint.'
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Passages linked to 1 Samuel 14:28 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Samuel 14:24 The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food until it is evening, and I am avenged of my enemies.” So none of the people tasted food.
- 1 Samuel 14:43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done!” Jonathan told him, and said, “I certainly did taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, weary.
Or, weary.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 14:28 Then answered one of the people, and…
1Sa 14:28 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.
Ver. 28. Then answered one of the people.] To Jonathan, who haply had exhorted them to refresh themselves, as he had done, or to follow hard after the enemies.
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And the people were faint.] Weak and weary with hunger and hard labour. Animantis cuiusque vita in fuga est. Were it not for the repair of nutrition, life would soon be extinct.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain One of the people, who came along with Saul,…
One of the people, who came along with Saul, whose forces were now united with Jonathan’s.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then answered one of the people, and said,.... To…
Then answered one of the people, and said,.... To Jonathan, who might direct and encourage the people to do as he had done, at least so he did by his example, if not by words; the latter is not improbable: and therefore one of the men that came along with Saul, and had now joined Jonathan, and who heard what Saul had said, replied:
thy father straitly charged the people with an oath; gave them a strict charge, with an oath or imprecation annexed to it:
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saying, cursed be the man that eateth any food this day; that is, until the evening, as in Sa1 14:24.
and the people were faint; which is either the observation of the writer of the book; or it may be the words of the man, imputing the faintness of the people to this adjuration of Saul restraining them from food; or as taking notice how strictly the people observed it, though they were hungry, faint, and weary.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain People - They that came with Saul, whose forces…
People - They that came with Saul, whose forces were now united with Jonathan's.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain And the people were faint - Read, “are faint,”…
And the people were faint - Read, “are faint,” the words are part of the man’s complaint.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 28. straitly] i.e. strictly. Cp. Exo_13:19; Jos_6:1.
28. straitly] i.e. strictly. Cp. Exo_13:19; Jos_6:1.
And the people were faint] Better, and the people are faint, or weary: words of the speaker, not a comment by the historian.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (28) Then answered one of the people.—Most probably, in…
(28) Then answered one of the people.—Most probably, in reply to Jonathan’s pointing out the plentiful supply of honey, and inviting the soldiers near him to refresh themselves with it. The words “and the people were faint,” at the close of the verse, should be rendered, and the people are faint; they were part of the speech of the soldier who was telling Jonathan of his father’s rash oath.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And the people were faint. There is great diversity…
And the people were faint. There is great diversity of opinion whether this be part or not of the speech of the man who informed Jonathan of the oath forced on the people by Saul. It makes, perhaps, the better sense if regarded as the continuation of the history, and inserted to justify Jonathan"s disapproval of his father"s hasty command. The fight rendering is were weary, as in the margin and Jud_1:4:21.
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