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1 Samuel 14:39-41
Lexham English Bible
1 Samuel 14:39-41
Lexham English Bible
39 For as Yahweh lives, who delivers Israel, I swear that even if it is in Jonathan my son, he will certainly die!”[a] But nobody from all the army answered him. 40 Then he said to all Israel, “You will be on one side,[b] and I and my son Jonathan will be on the other.”[c] And the army said to Saul, “Do what is good in your eyes.” 41 Then Saul said to Yahweh the God of Israel, “Render a decision perfectly.”[d] Jonathan and Saul were chosen by lot and the people went out.
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- 1 Samuel 14:39 Literally “surely dying he will die”
- 1 Samuel 14:40 Literally “opposite one”
- 1 Samuel 14:40 Literally “opposite one”
- 1 Samuel 14:41 Literally “give what is perfect”; the LXX includes additional words not found in the Masoretic Hebrew text but included in a number of modern English versions: “If this guilt is on me or in my son Jonathan, give Urim, but if this guilt is in your people Israel, give Thummim”
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