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Verse 1 Samuel 14:41. _LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, GIVE A PERFECT_ LOT.] Both
the _Vulgate_ and _Septuagint_ add much to this verse: _And Saul said
to_ _the Lord God of Israel, Lord God of Israel, give judgm...
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GIVE A PERFECT LOT - The phrase is obscure, but the meaning is
probably as in the margin....
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7. JONATHAN'S HEROIC DEED OF FAITH
CHAPTER 14
_ 1. Jonathan's victory (1 Samuel 14:1)_
2. Saul's adjuration and Jonathan's deed (1 Samuel 14:24)
3. Saul's first altar and unanswered inquiry ...
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The next episode strikingly illustrates the primitive religious faith
and practice of Israel. Saul proposed to make a night-attack upon the
Philistines, and asked the priest to obtain an oracle as to...
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THE LORD. Jehovah. Punctuate thus: "Saul said unto Jehovah: `O God of
Israel' ", &c.
GIVE. PERFECT LOT. Give perfections: i.e. _Thummim._ See Exodus 28:30.
There is evidently. _Homceoteleuton_ (App-6)...
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_Give a perfect lot_ This and not the marginal rendering "Shew the
innocent" is the best explanation of an obscure phrase which occurs
nowhere else.
The Sept. however has a very different reading, wh...
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The consequence of Jonathan's transgression
36. _Let us draw near hither unto God_ Ahijah checks Saul's impulse,
reminding him that it was necessary first to ascertain the will of
God. Perhaps he fel...
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GIVE A PERFECT LOT— There is nothing for _lot_ in the original, and
our Marginal _shew the innocent,_ is rather an explanation than a
version. The following is Houbigant's version: _And Saul said unto...
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Saul's Ill-advised Oath. 1 Samuel 14:24-46
24 And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had
adjured the people, saying, Cursed _be_ the man that eateth _any_ food
until evening, that I...
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_AND SAUL SAID, DISPERSE YOURSELVES AMONG THE PEOPLE, AND SAY UNTO
THEM, BRING ME HITHER EVERY MAN HIS OX, AND EVERY MAN HIS SHEEP, AND
SLAY THEM HERE, AND EAT; AND SIN NOT AGAINST THE LORD IN EATING...
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JONATHAN'S EXPLOIT. THE BATTLE OF MICHMASH. A SUMMARY OF SAUL'S REIGN
3. Ahiah] RV 'Ahijah,' probably merely another form of Ahimelech (1
Samuel 21:1). Melech (king) was one of the titles of Jah or J...
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GIVE A PERFECT _lot_] RV 'shew the right.'...
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 14
V1 A young man carried Jonathan’s *armour. Jonathan was Saul’s
son. One day, Jonathan said to the young man, ‘Let us go across to
the *Phil...
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GIVE A PERFECT LOT. — The rendering in the margin, “show the
innocent,” is a better and more accurate rendering of the Hebrew.
“Give a perfect lot” is the translation given by Rabbi D. Kimchi.
Dean Pa...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר שָׁא֗וּל אֶל ־יְהוָ֛ה
אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִ
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CHAPTER XX
_ SAUL'S WILFULNESS._
1 Samuel 14:24.
THAT Saul was now suffering in character under the influence of the
high position and great power to which he had been raised, is only too
apparent f...
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THE MAN WHO WROUGHT WITH GOD RESCUED
1 Samuel 14:36
In this case the voice of the people was the voice of God. If a man
dares to stand alone with God, he cannot be put to shame. If he says
of the Lor...
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Here we have a picture of Saul, with a part of the army about him,
remaining idle in Gibeah. His son Jonathan moved to action by his
sense of the degradation of his people, and his conviction of the
s...
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Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give (r) a perfect
[lot]. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.
(r) Cause the lot to fall on him that has broken the oath, but he...
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_A sign, (judicium;) "pass sentence;" declare why, &c. (Haydock) ---
Hebrew, "give purity." Shew who is innocent. (Calmet) --- Septuagint,
"give the proofs" by the Thummim, which they seem to have rea...
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(24) В¶ And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had
adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food
until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of...
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We have already seen that the desire and deliberate decision of the
people for a king was a direct blow at the government of God in
Israel; but the time was come to permit the will of the people to ha...
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But faith in God is always blest; and if God has shewn the effect of
unbelief, He also shews its folly, since wherever faith is found,
there all His strength is displayed; and then it is the enemy who...
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THEREFORE SAUL SAID TO THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL,.... After the division
was made between him and his son on one side, and the people of Israel
on the other, and everything was ready for the drawing of t...
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Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a perfect [lot].
And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.
Ver. 41. _Give a perfect lot._] Or, Show the innocent, as Tremelius
re...
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_Give a perfect lot_ Or, _Declare the perfect_, or _guiltless_ person.
That is, O Lord, so guide the lot, that it may discover who is guilty
in this matter, and who innocent. _The people escaped_ They...
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1 Ionathan, vnwitting to his father, the Priest, or the people, goeth
and miraculously smiteth the Philistines garrison.
15 A diuine terrour maketh them beate themselues.
17 Saul not staying the Pri...
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Therefore Saul said unto the Lord God of Israel, Give a perfect lot,
exemption from punishment, establish the truth. AND SAUL AND JONATHAN
WERE TAKEN; BUT THE PEOPLE ESCAPED, they went out free, the l...
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Saul's Unwise Adjuration...
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The Philistines seemed content to intimidate Israel with their
tremendous show of strength, rather than to attack Saul. One man,
however, is not to be intimidated. Jonathan, in the face of Philistine...
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GIVE:
Or, shew the innocent
ESCAPED:
_ Heb._ went forth...
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36-46 If God turns away our prayer, we have reason to suspect it is
for some sin harboured in our hearts, which we should find out, that
we may put it away, and put it to death. We should always firs...
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1 Samuel 14:41 Saul H7586 said H559 (H8799) LORD H3068 God H430 Israel
H3478 Give H3051 (H8798) perfect...
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CONTINUATION OF THE DEFEAT OF THE PHILISTINES BY RAIDING THEIR
TERRITORY IS ABORTED AND JONATHAN IS NEARLY EXECUTED, AND ALL DUE TO
SAUL'S FOOLISH CURSE (1 SAMUEL 14:36).
This passage (1 Samuel 14:1)...
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1 Samuel 14
These were evil days for the people of Israel. But it was in these
dark days that Jonathan shone so famous. It is yet true that
difficulties prove our mettle, and that the greater the har...
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CONTENTS: Jonathan's great victory over the Philistines.
CHARACTERS: God, Jonathan, armor-bearer, Saul, Ahiah, Abner.
CONCLUSION: Let this strengthen the weak and encourage the timid, that
no matter...
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1 Samuel 14:2. _Under a pomegranate tree._ רמן _Rimmon,_ a rock in
the tribe of Judah. Joshua 15:32; Judges 20:47. This reading agrees
best with the position of Saul's army, in a place of safety....
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_And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured
the people._
GREAT ISSUES HANG ON A KING’S RASH WORD
One little sentence, spoken in a moment of passion by King Henry the
Second,...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 14:1 This chapter focuses on Saul’s son
Jonathan, who will become a friend of David. Jonathan’s act of trust
in this chapter is sandwiched between two examples of Saul’s
diso...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 14:41 GIVE URIM.... GIVE THUMMIM.... CAST
THE LOT. The Urim and Thummim (or just Urim) are mentioned also in
Exodus 28:30;...
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES
1 Samuel 14:18. “BRING HITHER THE ARK OF GOD.” “Many expositors,
thinking it extremely improbable that the ark had been removed from
Kirjath-jearim, where it was afterwa...
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EXPOSITION
JONATHAN'S DANGER AND DELIVERANCE (1 Samuel 14:36-9).
1 SAMUEL 14:36
LET US GO DOWN AFTER THE PHILISTINES BY NIGHT. Saul, conscious that he
had prevented the victory f
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EXPOSITION
JONATHAN SMITES THE PHILISTINE GAR-BISON (1 Samuel 14:1).
1 SAMUEL 14:1
NOW IT CAME TO PASS UPON A DAY. Literally, "And there was a day, and
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Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to
the young man that bear his armour, Come, and let us go over to the
Philistines' garrison on the other side. But he did not tell h...
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1 Samuel 10:20; 1 Samuel 10:21; Acts 1:24; Jonah 1:7; Joshua 7:16;...
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Perfect lot — Or, declare the perfect, or guiltless person. That is,
O Lord, so guide the lot, that it may discover who is guilty in his
matter, and who innocent. Escaped — They were pronounced guiltl...