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Smith Van Dyke Version
صَمُوئِيلَ ٱلْأَوَّلُ 14:37
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Shall I go: 1 Samuel 23:4, 1 Samuel 23:9-12, 1 Samuel 30:7, 1 Samuel 30:8, Judges 1:1, Judges 20:18, Judges 20:28, 2 Samuel 5:19, 2 Samuel 5:23, 1 Kings 22:5, 1 Kings 22:15
he answered: 1 Samuel 28:6, Ezekiel 14:3-5, Ezekiel 20:3
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 23:6 - an ephod 2 Kings 4:31 - neither voice Micah 3:7 - no John 10:35 - unto
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Saul asked counsel of God,.... He agreed to the motion of the high priest, and asked counsel by Urim and Thummim; the Targum is, as before,
"inquired by the Word of the Lord:''
shall I go down after the Philistines? pursue after them in their flight to their own country, which, lying to the sea, was a descent:
wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? what remain of them, otherwise a victory over them was obtained:
but he answered him not that day; no answer was returned by Urim and Thummim, so that he was left in suspense whether he should pursue or no; the Targum is,
"he received not his prayer that day;''
this was treating him in a righteous manner; since he would not stay for an answer from the Lord, 1 Samuel 14:19, the Lord now will not give him any; though the principal view was, that he might take the step he did.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Asked counsel - The technical phrase for inquiring of God by Urim and Thummim, and applied also to inquiry of other oracles.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Samuel 14:37. He answered him not that day. — Why was this answer delayed? Surely Jonathan's eating the honey was no sin. This could not have excited God's displeasure. And yet the lot found out Jonathan! But did this argue that he had incurred guilt in the sight of God? I answer: It did not; for Jonathan was delivered, by the authority of the people, from his father's rash curse; no propitiation is offered for his supposed transgression to induce God to pardon it; nor do we find any displeasure of God manifested on the occasion. See below.
