1 Samuël 14:39

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Want, zo waar als de Heer leeft, die aan Israel de zege verschaft heeft, al ware zij door mijn zoon Jonathan bedreven, sterven zal hij. En niemand uit het ganse volk antwoordde hem.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
want zo waarachtig als de Heer leeft, Israls Heiland, al ware zij ook bij mijnen zoon Jonathan, zo zal hij sterven. En niemand antwoordde hem uit al het volk.

Staten Vertaling
Want zo waarachtig als de HEERE leeft, Die Israel verlost, al ware het in mijn zoon Jonathan, zo zal hij den dood sterven; en niemand uit het ganse volk antwoordde hem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Samuel 14:24, 1 Samuel 14:44, 1 Samuel 19:6, 1 Samuel 20:31, 1 Samuel 22:16, 1 Samuel 28:10, 2 Samuel 12:5, Ecclesiastes 9:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:17 - surely Joshua 7:15 - he that is 1 Samuel 14:1 - Jonathan 2 Samuel 14:21 - I have done 1 Kings 1:29 - As the 1 Kings 17:12 - As the Lord 2 Kings 5:20 - as the Lord liveth 1 Chronicles 10:2 - Jonathan Job 27:2 - God liveth Jonah 1:7 - for Matthew 14:9 - the oath's

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For as the Lord liveth, which saveth Israel,.... And had saved them that day with a great salvation and had wrought a great deliverance for them in freeing them from the Philistines, who had threatened the ruin of the whole nation. This is the form of an oath:

though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die; that is, though the sin should be found in him, or he should be found guilty of the breach of what he had charged them with an oath to observe, namely, to eat no food that day till evening:

but there was not a man among all the people that answered him; who knew that Jonathan had tasted of honey, but they would not acquaint him with it; partly because they knew he did it ignorantly, having no knowledge of his father's charge and oath, and partly because of their great affection to him, who had been the instrument of their deliverance and salvation that day.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Saul’s rashness becomes more and more apparent. He now adds an additional oath, to bring down yet further guilt in “taking God’s name in vain” The expressions in 1 Samuel 14:36, 1 Samuel 14:40, indicate the fear in which the people stood of Saul. None dared to resist his will.