1Samuel:14:24-48

web@1Samuel: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.

web@1Samuel:14:25 @All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground.

web@1Samuel:14:26 @When the people had come to the forest, behold, the honey dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.

web@1Samuel:14:27 @But Jonathan didn't hear when his father commanded the people with the oath: therefore he put forth the end of the rod who was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.

web@1Samuel:14:28 @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 this day.'" The people were faint.

web@1Samuel:14:29 @Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

web@1Samuel:14:30 @How much more, if perhaps the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found? For now has there been no great slaughter among the Philistines."

web@1Samuel:14:31 @They struck of the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint;

web@1Samuel:14:32 @and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

web@1Samuel:14:33 @Then they told Saul, saying, "Behold, the people are sinning against Yahweh, in that they eat meat with the blood." He said, "You have dealt treacherously. Roll a large stone to me this day!"

web@1Samuel:14:34 @Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, 'Bring me here every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don't sin against Yahweh in eating meat with the blood.'" All the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there.

web@1Samuel:14:35 @Saul built an altar to Yahweh. This was the first altar that he built to Yahweh.

web@1Samuel:14:36 @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." They said, "Do whatever seems good to you." Then the priest said, "Let us draw near here to God."

web@1Samuel:14:37 @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.

web@1Samuel:14:38 @Saul said, "Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin has been this day.

web@1Samuel:14:39 @For, as Yahweh 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.

web@1Samuel:14:40 @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."

web@1Samuel:14:41 @Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, "Show the right." Jonathan and Saul were chosen; but the people escaped.

web@1Samuel:14:42 @Saul said, "Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son." Jonathan was selected.

web@1Samuel: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."

web@1Samuel:14:44 @Saul said, "God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan."

web@1Samuel:14:45 @The people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day!" So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die.

web@1Samuel:14:46 @Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.

web@1Samuel:14:47 @Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and wherever he turned himself, he defeated them.

web@1Samuel:14:48 @He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them.

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