1 Samuel 14:36

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lagi kata Saul: "Marilah kita pada malam ini mengejar orang Filistin dan menjarahi mereka sampai fajar menyingsing dan janganlah kita biarkan hidup seorangpun dari mereka." Jawab mereka itu: "Perbuatlah apa yang kaupandang baik." Tetapi imam berkata: "Marilah kita dahulu tampil menghadap Allah di sini."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lagi kata Saul: "Marilah kita pada malam ini mengejar orang Filistin dan menjarahi mereka sampai fajar menyingsing dan janganlah kita biarkan hidup seorangpun dari mereka." Jawab mereka itu: "Perbuatlah apa yang kaupandang baik." Tetapi imam berkata: "Marilah kita dahulu tampil menghadap Allah di sini."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Kemudian titah Saul: Mari kita turun mengusir orang Filistin pada malam dan menjarahi dia sampai pagi terbit fajar, dan jangan kita tinggalkan barang seorang juapun dari padanya. Maka sembah mereka itu: Baiklah tuanku berbuat barang yang benar kepada pemandangan tuanku; tetapi kata imam: Mari, sekarang kita menghadap Allah.

Contextual Overview

³⁶ And Saul sayde: Let vs go downe after the Philistines by night, and spoyle them, vntil it be day in the morning, and let vs not leaue one man of them. And they sayde: Do whatsoeuer thou thinkest best. Then sayde the priest: Let vs come hyther vnto God. ³⁷ And Saul asked of God: Shall I go downe after the Philistines? Wilt thou deliuer them into the handes of Israel? But he aunswered him not at that time. ³⁸ And Saul sayde: Let al the chiefe of the people come hyther, and knowe and see by whom this sinne is done this day. ³⁹ For as the Lorde liueth, whiche saued Israel, though it be in Ionathan my sonne, he shal dye the death. But there was no man among all the people that aunswered him. ⁴⁰ Then he sayde vnto al Israel: Be ye on one syde, and I and Ionathan my sonne will be on the other syde. And the people saide vnto Saul: What thou thinkest best, that do. ⁴¹ Therfore Saul saide vnto the Lorde God of Israel, geue a perfect lot. And Saul and Ionathan were caught: but the people scaped free. ⁴² And Saul said: Cast lot betweene me and Ionathan my sonne. And Ionathan was caught. ⁴³ Then Saul saide to Ionathan: Tell me what thou hast done. And Ionathan tolde him, and sayde: I tasted a litle honie with the ende of the rod that was in myne hand, & lo, I must dye. ⁴⁴ Saul aunswered: God do so & more also to me, thou shalt dye the death Ionathan. ⁴⁵ And the people said vnto Saul: Shal Ionathan dye, which hath so mightilie deliuered Israel? God forbid. As the Lord lyueth, there shall not one heere of his head fall to ye ground, for he hath wrought with God this daye. And so the people deliuered Ionathan, that he dyed not.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Let us go: Joshua 10:9-14, Joshua 10:19, Jeremiah 6:5

let us not leave: 1 Samuel 11:11, Joshua 11:14

Then said the priest: It is evident that Ahiah, who had before been interrupted by Saul's impatience, doubted of the propriety of pursuing the Philistines that night, and properly counselled them to enquire of the Lord. Numbers 27:21, Psalms 73:28, Isaiah 48:1, Isaiah 48:2, Isaiah 58:2, Malachi 2:7, James 4:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:13 - Upon 1 Samuel 14:40 - Do what seemeth 1 Samuel 23:6 - an ephod 2 Kings 3:27 - they departed 1 Chronicles 13:3 - we inquired Ecclesiastes 9:18 - sinner John 10:35 - unto

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Saul said,.... To his son Jonathan, or to some of the principal officers of his army:

let us go down after the Philistines by night; or tonight, that same night; which is another hardship he laid his troops under; as he had restrained them from eating all that day until evening, now he proposed they shall take no sleep that night, but proceed on in their pursuit of the Philistines, having eaten, and drank, and refreshed themselves. The Arabic version is, "let us go down to the Philistines"; and so Noldius e chooses to render the words; which I pretty much wonder at, and especially at what he observes in favour of it, and against the common rendering; that at this time the Philistines had not turned their backs, so that the Israelites could not be said to go after them, but were in a camp opposite to them; but that they had fled, and were pursued, is most certain from 1 Samuel 14:22,

and spoil them until the morning light; or kill of them, as the Targum, and so the Arabic version; for spoiling must be meant of killing; for as for the spoil of their provisions, riches, c. that had already fallen into their hands, 1 Samuel 14:30, and this is confirmed by what follows:

and let us not leave a man of them great numbers had been slain already, partly by their falling upon one another, and partly by the swords of Jonathan and his armourbearer at the first onset, and by Saul and his men in the pursuit of them; and so intent was Saul in the utter destruction of them, that he was for following and cutting them off, that none of their prodigious army might return home:

and they said, do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; they had religiously observed his oath, in refraining from food all the day, and now they were as willing to be obedient to his command in denying themselves refreshing rest in sleep:

then said the priest, let us draw near hither unto God; Ahiah the priest, Josephus f calls him Ahitob, who was present with the ark, agreed to the proposal of Saul, only moved, that before they set forward they would seek the Lord; perhaps reflecting upon the abrupt manner in which Saul departed from Gibeah, just as he was consulting the Lord, and not staying for an answer from him; which the priest might fear would be resented by him, and therefore proposes first to draw nigh to God; not to the altar Saul had built, or had just begun to build, but to the ark, with which the high priest was, and was a symbol of the divine Presence: the Targum is,

"let us draw near hither, and inquire by the word of the Lord.''

e Ebr. Concord. Part. p. 15. No. 92. f Antiqu. l. 6. c. 6. sect. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then said the priest ... - Ahijah, with equal courage and faithfulness, worthy of his office as “the priest,” when every one else yielded to Saul’s humor, proposed that they should draw near to God to inquire of Him. (Compare 1 Kings 22:7.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 14:36. Then said the priest — It is evident that Ahiah doubted the propriety of pursuing the Philistines that night; and as a reverse of fortune might be ruinous after such a victory, he wished to have specific directions from the Lord.