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Geneva Study Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 14:41

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 does not consider his presumption in commanding the same oath.

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See also 1 Samuel 14:41 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    GIVE A PERFECT LOT - The phrase is obscure, but the meaning is probably as in the margin....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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)...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    GIVE A PERFECT _lot_] RV 'shew the right.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר שָׁא֗וּל אֶל ־יְהוָ֛ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Saul's Unwise Adjuration...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    GIVE: Or, shew the innocent ESCAPED: _ Heb._ went forth...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    GIVE A PERFECT LOT, or declare (for giving is oft put for _declaring or pronouncing_, as DEUTERONOMY 11:29, DEUTERONOMY 13:1,2 PR 9:9) _the perfect or guiltless person_; i.e. O Lord, so guide the lot,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 14:41 Saul H7586 said H559 (H8799) LORD H3068 God H430 Israel H3478 Give H3051 (H8798) perfect...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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)...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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,...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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;...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 10:20; 1 Samuel 10:21; Acts 1:24; Jonah 1:7; Joshua 7:16;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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