1 Samuel 10:3 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 10:3

Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.

BSB

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ASV

Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the oak of Tabor; and there shall meet thee there three men going up to God to Beth-el, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:

KJV

Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Beth–el, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The plain of Tabor - It should be “the oak or terebinth”” of Tabor” (Jdg 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” Gen 35:

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Original language & word study

29 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְחָלַפְתָּ֨	ve.cha.laf.Ta	and you will pass on	H2498 →
מִשָּׁ֜ם	mi.Sham	from there	H8033 →
וָהָ֗לְאָה	va.Hal.'ah	and beyond	H1973 →
וּבָ֙אתָ֙	u.Va.ta	and you will come	H935 →
עַד־	'ad-	to	H5704 →
אֵל֣וֹן	'e.Lon	[the] great tree of	H436 →
תָּב֔וֹר	ta.Vor	Tabor	H8396 →
וּמְצָא֤וּךָ	u.me.tza.'U.kha	and they will find you	H4672 →
שָּׁם֙	sham	there	H8033 →
שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה	she.lo.Shah	three	H7969 →
אֲנָשִׁ֔ים	'a.na.Shim	men	H582 →
עֹלִ֥ים	'o.Lim	going up	H5927 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים	ha.'E.lo.Him	<the> God	H430 →
בֵּֽית־	beit-	Beth-	H1008 →
אֵ֑ל	'El	-el	H1008 →
אֶחָ֞ד	'e.Chad	one	H259 →
נֹשֵׂ֣א׀	no.Se'	[will be] carrying	H5375 →
שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה	she.lo.Shah	three	H7969 →
גְדָיִ֗ים	ge.da.Yim	kids	H1423 →
וְאֶחָד֙	ve.'e.Chad	and one	H259 →
נֹשֵׂ֗א	no.Se'	[will be] carrying	H5375 →
שְׁלֹ֙שֶׁת֙	she.Lo.shet	three	H7969 →
כִּכְּר֣וֹת	ki.ke.Rot	round loaves of	H3603 →
לֶ֔חֶם	Le.chem	bread	H3899 →
וְאֶחָ֥ד	ve.'e.Chad	and one	H259 →
נֹשֵׂ֖א	no.Se'	[will be] carrying	H5375 →
נֵֽבֶל־	ne.vel-	a skin of	H5035 →
יָֽיִן׃	Ya.yin	wine	H3196 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 28:22
And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”
leads to
- Genesis 35:7
  There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 14:20
  and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.
- Deuteronomy 14:22–23
  You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields.
- Leviticus 27:30–33
  Thus any tithe from the land, whether from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.
Through
Genesis 28:19
and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.
leads to
- Genesis 35:1
  Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Hosea 12:4–5
  Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there—
- Genesis 48:3
  Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed me
Through
Genesis 35:1
Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
leads to
- Genesis 31:13
  I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up and leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’”