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1 Samuel 14:37 KJV
1 Samuel · chapter 14 · verse 37
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.1 Samuel 14:37 · King James Version
1 Samuel 14:37 in context
35And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD.
36And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil 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.
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.
38And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.
39For, as the LORD liveth, which 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- PhilistinesPᵉlishtîya Pelishtite or inhabitant of PeleshethH6430 →
- answeredʻânâhproperly, to eye or to heedH6030 →
- delivernâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- askedshâʼalto inquireH7592 →
- afterʼacharproperly, the hind partH310 →
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Here is, I. Saul's boasting against the Philistines. He proposed, as soon as his soldiers had got their suppers, to pursue them all night, and not leave a man of them, Sa1 14:36. Here he showed much zeal, but little discretion; for his army, thus fatigued, could as ill spare a night's sleep as a meal's meat.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 36-46