1 Samuel 10:3

Louis Segond

De là tu iras plus loin, et tu arriveras au chêne de Thabor, où tu seras rencontré par trois hommes montant vers Dieu à Béthel, et portant l'un trois chevreaux, l'autre trois gâteaux de pain, et l'autre une outre de vin.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et lorsque de l� tu auras pass� plus avant, et que tu seras venu jusqu'au ch�ne de Tabor, tu seras rencontr� par trois hommes qui montent vers Dieu, � B�thel, et qui portent, l'un trois chevreaux, l'autre trois tourteaux de pain, et l'autre une outre de vin;

Darby's French Translation
Et de l� tu passeras plus loin, et tu viendras au ch�ne de Thabor; et l� te trouveront trois hommes qui montent vers Dieu � B�thel, l'un portant trois chevreaux, l'autre portant trois g�teaux de pain, et l'autre portant une outre de vin.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et lorsque �tant parti de l� tu auras pass� outre, et que tu seras venu jusqu'au bois de ch�nes de Tabor; tu seras rencontr� par trois hommes qui montent vers Dieu, en la maison du [Dieu] Fort; l'un desquels porte trois chevreaux, l'autre trois pains, et l'autre un baril de vin.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Tabor: Joshua 19:12, Joshua 19:22, Judges 4:6, Judges 4:12, Judges 8:18, Psalms 89:12

Bethel: Genesis 28:19, Genesis 28:22, Genesis 35:1, Genesis 35:3, Genesis 35:6, Genesis 35:7

three kids: Leviticus 1:10, Leviticus 3:6, Leviticus 3:12, Leviticus 7:13, Leviticus 23:13, Numbers 15:5-12

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 16:1 - a bottle Jeremiah 32:8 - Then I

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then shall thou go on forward from thence,.... From Zelzah and Rachel's sepulchre there:

and thou shall come to the plain of Tabor; not that which lay at the bottom of the famous and well known mountain Tabor; for that was in the tribe of Zebulun, at a great distance from hence: but a plain, so called perhaps from the name of the owner of it:

and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel: the same with Luz, where Jacob built an altar, and called upon God; and so Elohimbethel here is the same with Elbethel, Genesis 35:6. Here was an high place as at Ramah, whither in those times, when there was no fixed place for worship, the tabernacle at one place, and the ark at another, the people went up to worship; and they might the rather choose this, because it was a place devoted to the worship and service of God by their father Jacob; so the Targum paraphrases it,

"going up to worship God in Bethel;''

so Josephus c, they were going thither to pray, and, as it seems by what follows, to sacrifice: one carrying three kids; which were used in sacrifice, and were a pretty heavy load if carried far; though, according to Josephus d, it was but one kid:

and another carrying three loaves of bread; for the minchah, the meat offering, or rather bread offering, Leviticus 2:4

and another carrying a bottle of wine; for the drink offering, the fourth part of an hin of wine being required for each kid, Numbers 15:5. This bottle, Ben Melech says, was a bottle made of skin, a leathern bottle or bag, or a potter's vessel or pitcher; the Targum renders it, a flagon of wine.

c Antiqu. l. 6. c. 4. sect. 2. d lbid.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The plain of Tabor - It should be “the oak or terebinth”” of Tabor” (Judges 4:11 note). It has been ingeniously conjectured that “Tabor” is either a different form of “Deborah,” or a corruption of it, and that the “oak,” or “terebinth of Tabor,” is the same as “Allon-bachuth,” the oak under which Deborah was buried, and which lay “beneath Bethel” Genesis 35:8. The terebinth, where the three men came upon Saul, must have been at some point previous to that where the road leading northward from Jerusalem branches; when they reached that point they would go on with their offerings to Bethel, he would pursue his journey to Gibeah.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 10:3. Three men going up to God to Bethel — Jacob's altar was probably there still, Genesis 28:19. However this might be, it was still considered, as its name implies, the house of God; and to it they were now going, to offer sacrifice.

The three kids were for sacrifice; the three loaves of bread to be offered probably as a thank-offering; and the bottle or skin full of wine, for a libation. When the blood was poured out before the Lord, then they feasted on the flesh and on the bread; and probably had a sufficiency of the wine left for their own drinking.