1 Samuel 14:34-36

International Standard Version

³⁴ Then Saul said, “Disperse yourselves among the soldiers and say to them, ‘Let each man bring his ox and his sheep to me, and you are to slaughter them here and eat. But don’t sin against the Lord by eating meat^[a] with the blood.’” So every soldier brought his ox with him that night, and they slaughtered them there. ³⁵ Saul built an altar to the Lord; it was the first altar that he built to the Lord.

³⁶ Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines tonight and plunder them until dawn, and let’s not leave a single one^[b] of them alive.”

They said, “Do whatever seems good to you!”

But the priest said, “Let’s draw near to God here.”