1 Samuel 14:38
◄  1 Samuel 14:38  ►
New International Version (©2011)
Saul therefore said, "Come here, all you who are leaders of the army, and let us find out what sin has been committed today.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then Saul said to the leaders, "Something's wrong! I want all my army commanders to come here. We must find out what sin was committed today.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And Saul said, “Come here, all you leaders of the people, and know and see how this sin has arisen today.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Saul said, "Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people, and investigate and see how this sin has happened today.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Saul said, "All you leaders of the troops, come here. Let us investigate how this sin has occurred today.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Saul said, "All you army officers are to come here to find out what constitutes this sin today.

NET Bible (©2006)
Then Saul said, "All you leaders of the army come here. Find out how this sin occurred today.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So Saul ordered all the leaders of the troops, "Come here! Find out what sin was committed today.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Saul said, Draw you near here, all you leaders of the people: and know and see what this sin has been this day.

American King James Version
And Saul said, Draw you near here, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin has been this day.

American Standard Version
And Saul said, Draw nigh hither, all ye chiefs of the people; and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Saul said: Bring hither all the corners of the people: and know, and see by whom this sin hath happened to day.

Darby Bible Translation
And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the heads of the people; and know and see wherein this sin has been this day.

English Revised Version
And Saul said, Draw nigh hither, all ye chiefs of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Saul said, Draw ye near hither all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.

World English Bible
Saul said, "Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin has been this day.

Young's Literal Translation
And Saul saith, 'Draw ye nigh hither all, the chiefs of the people, and know and see in what this sin hath been to-day;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

14:36-46 If God turns away our prayer, we have reason to suspect it is for some sin harboured in our hearts, which we should find out, that we may put it away, and put it to death. We should always first suspect and examine ourselves; but an unhumbled heart suspects every other person, and looks every where but at home for the sinful cause of calamity. Jonathan was discovered to be the offender. Those most indulgent to their own sins are most severe upon others; those who most disregard God's authority, are most impatient when their own commands are slighted. Such as cast abroad curses, endanger themselves and their families. What do we observe in the whole of Saul's behaviour on this occasion, but an impetuous, proud, malignant, impious disposition? And do we not in every instance perceive that man, left to himself, betrays the depravity of his nature, and is enslaved to the basest tempers.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Saul said, draw ye near hither all the chief of the people,.... Or, the corners of the peoples (g); the princes, as Jarchi interprets it: and so the Targum, the heads of the people, in allusion to the cornerstones in buildings, which are the ornament, strength, and cement of them, see Zechariah 10:4, though Abarbinel thinks the tribes themselves are meant, which lay encamped everyone in a corner by themselves, separated from one another; and these he would have brought together; not the heads only, but everyone, small and great, that it might be seen and known where the sin lay; but he should have observed, that the tribes of Israel were not now present with Saul, but a small number of them:

and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day; he concluded, from having no answer from the Lord, that sin had been committed, which was the cause of it; but never thought of his own rash oath, which was the cause of the people's sinning, and had brought his son into danger; nor the sin of the people in eating the flesh with the blood; nothing ran in his mind but the breach of the oath with which he had adjured the people, and this he was determined to find out, if possible.

(g) "anguli populi", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.

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The People Save Jonathan
37And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? will you deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day. 38And Saul said, Draw you near here, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin has been this day. 39For, as the LORD lives, which saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him. …

Joshua 7:11 Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenant, which I commanded them to keep. They have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen, they have lied, they have put them with their own possessions.
Joshua 7:12 That is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies; they turn their backs and run because they have been made liable to destruction. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy whatever among you is devoted to destruction.
Joshua 7:15 Whoever is caught with the devoted things shall be destroyed by fire, along with all that belongs to him. He has violated the covenant of the LORD and has done an outrageous thing in Israel!'"
1 Samuel 10:19 But you have now rejected your God, who saves you out of all your disasters and calamities. And you have said, 'No, appoint a king over us.' So now present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans."
1 Samuel 10:20 When Samuel had all Israel come forward by tribes, the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot.