◄ 1 Samuel 14:35 ►
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Good News Translation
Saul built an altar to the LORD, the first one that he built.

New Revised Standard Version
And Saul built an altar to the LORD; it was the first altar that he built to the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
It was the first altar Saul had built for offering sacrifices to the LORD.

New American Bible
and Saul built an altar to the LORD—this was the first time he built an altar to the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Saul built an altar to the Lord: and he then first began to build an altar to the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Saul built an altar to the Lord: and he then first began to build an altar to the Lord.

1 Samuel 7:9,17 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it whole for a holocaust to the Lord: and Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord heard him. . . .

Judges 21:4 And rising early the next day, they built an altar: and offered there holocausts, and victims of peace, and they said:

Hosea 8:14 And Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and hath built temples: and Juda hath built many fenced cities: and I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the houses thereof.

2 Timothy 3:5 Having an appearance indeed of godliness but denying the power thereof. Now these avoid.

the same, etc.

Context
Jonathan Eats the Honey
…34And Saul said: Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them to bring me every man his ox and his ram and slay them upon this stone, and eat, and you shall not sin against the Lord, in eating with the blood. So all the people brought every man his ox with him till the night: and slew them there. 35And Saul built an altar to the Lord: and he then first began to build an altar to the Lord.36And Saul said: Let us fall upon the Philistines by night, and destroy them till the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And the people said: Do all that seemeth good in thy eyes. And the priest said: Let us draw near hither unto God.…
Cross References
James 4:8
Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

1 Samuel 7:12
And Samuel took a stone, and laid it between Masphath and Sen: and he called the place The stone of help. And he said: Thus far the Lord hath helped us.

1 Samuel 7:17
And he returned to Ramatha: for there was his house, and there he judged Israel: he built also there an altar to the Lord.

1 Samuel 14:34
And Saul said: Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them to bring me every man his ox and his ram and slay them upon this stone, and eat, and you shall not sin against the Lord, in eating with the blood. So all the people brought every man his ox with him till the night: and slew them there.

2 Samuel 24:25
And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered holocausts and peace offerings: and the Lord became merciful to the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

1 Samuel 14:34
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