1 Samuël 14:30

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Zou niet veeleer, indien het volk heden vrij had kunnen eten van den buit zijner vijanden dien het gevonden heeft, de slachting onder de Filistijnen groter geweest zijn?

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Maar dewijl het volk heden niet heeft mogen eten van den buit zijner vijanden, dien zij gevonden hebben, zo heeft nu ook de slachting der Filistijnen niet groter kunnen zijn.

Staten Vertaling
Hoe veel meer, indien het volk heden had mogen vrijelijk eten van den buit zijner vijanden, dien het gevonden heeft! Maar nu is die slag niet groot geweest over de Filistijnen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

had there: Ecclesiastes 9:18

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found?.... That is, had they been, allowed eat freely of the provisions, of bread, wine, c. they found in the enemy's camp, they would have been much more refreshed and strengthened than it could be supposed he was with eating a little honey if that had had such an effect upon him, of what service would a full meal have been to the people?

for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines? the people would have had more strength to smite them, and would have pursued them with greater ardour and swiftness, and so have made a greater slaughter among them than they had; he intimates that Saul's end would have been better answered by suffering the people to eat, than by forbidding them.