Saul said, “Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin has been today.
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Saul said, “Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin has been today.
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And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.
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And Saul said: 'Draw nigh hither, all ye chiefs of the people; and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.
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Passages linked to 1 Samuel 14:38 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 24:17 I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and crush all the sons of Sheth.
- Joshua 7:11 Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.
- Joshua 7:14-26 In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which Yahweh selects shall come near by families. The family which Yahweh selects shall come near by households. The household which Yahweh selects shall come near man by man. It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed Yahweh’s covenant, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’ ” So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected. He brought near the family of Judah, and he selected the family of the Zerahites. He brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was selected. He brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected. Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!” Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done. When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.” So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it. They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before Yahweh. Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor. Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones. They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called “The valley of Achor” to this day.
- Judges 20:2 The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.
- 1 Samuel 10:19-20 But you have today rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, ‘No! Set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.” So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was chosen.
- 2 Samuel 18:3 But the people said, “You shall not go out; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.”
- Psalms 47:9 The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted!
- Zechariah 10:4 From him will come the cornerstone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.
- Matthew 21:42 Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?’
- Ephesians 2:20 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hebrew, corners.
Hebrew, corners.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 14:38 And Saul said, Draw ye near hither,…
1Sa 14:38 And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.
Ver. 38. Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people.] Heb., The corners: for what the cornerstones are to the building, that the princes are to the people. See Jdg 20:2. The Switzers at this day call their chief towns Cantons, that is, corners; and the Greeks of old called their town governors Pagites; the Hebrews, Corners.
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And know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.] He knew it was for some sin that God was so silent, - "we know that God heareth not sinners," said that blind man in Joh 9:31, - and he doubted not but that it was the breach of that oath imposed by himself, but rashly and without reason; which yet he never regretteth.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain All the chief of the people; in the name…
All the chief of the people; in the name of all the people, that you may be witnesses, and may see where the fault lies.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Saul said, draw ye near hither all the…
And Saul said, draw ye near hither all the chief of the people,.... Or, the corners of the peoples (g); the princes, as Jarchi interprets it: and so the Targum, the heads of the people, in allusion to the cornerstones in buildings, which are the ornament, strength, and cement of them, see Zac 10:4, though Abarbinel thinks the tribes themselves are meant, which lay encamped everyone in a corner by themselves, separated from one another; and these he would have brought together; not the heads only, but everyone, small and great, that it might be seen and known where the sin lay; but he should have observed, that the tribes of Israel were not now present with Saul, but a small number of them:
and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day; he concluded, from having no answer from the Lord, that sin had been committed, which was the cause of it; but never thought of his own rash oath, which was the cause of the people's sinning, and had brought his son into danger; nor the sin of the people in eating the flesh with the blood; nothing ran in his mind but the breach of the oath with which he had adjured the people, and this he was determined to find out, if possible.
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(g) "anguli populi", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Corners, to the very last; or all the princes,…
Corners, to the very last; or all the princes, Judges xviii. 9.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 38. Draw ye near hither — For the purpose…
38. Draw ye near hither — For the purpose of casting lots.
Chief of the people — פנות, corners, applied to princes and chief men as corner-stones or pillars of the state. Saul supposed that the blame must lie on some prominent man of his army, and he vowed his death, even should it be Jonathan.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 38. the chief of the people] Lit. “the corner-stones…
38. the chief of the people] Lit. “the corner-stones of the people,” as in Jdg_20:2, probably the elders or heads of houses.
wherein this sin hath been] Saul assumes that some undiscovered sin must have caused God to refuse an answer, as Achan’s trespass led Him to withdraw His Presence and abandon Israel to defeat (Jos_7:11-12). At a later time Saul’s own sin made God desert Him in the same way (ch. 1Sa_28:6; 1Sa_28:15). Jonathan’s transgression of the oath, although unintentional, was an offence against the Majesty of the Divine Name which could not be left unnoticed.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (38) Draw ye near hither.—Round that rough unfinished altar,…
(38) Draw ye near hither.—Round that rough unfinished altar, in the dark night, King Saul hastily summoned his leading officers and the prominent chiefs of the Israelites who had joined him in the late battle. The word rendered “chief of the people” (pinnoth) is literally, corner stones (as in Jdg_20:2).
He would ask God’s help in the casting of lots, to discover who of these was the transgressor, whose sin made dumb the Divine Oracle.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 the people
the people
This refers to the Israelites.
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learn and see how this sin has happened
"find who sinned"
even if it is in Jonathan my son, he will surely die
Saul stated this as a hypothetical situation because he did not believe that Jonathan was guilty. (See: Hypothetical Situations)
But none of the men among all the people answered him
The people remained silent because most of them knew that Jonathan had broken Saul's oath. This can be stated explicitly. AT: "His men knew who was guilty, but none of them said anything to Saul" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
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Yahweh
save
Jonathan
die
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