1 Samuel 14:35 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 14:35

Then Saul built an altar to the LORD; it was the first time he had built an altar to the LORD.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And Saul built an altar unto Jehovah: the same was the first altar that he built unto Jehovah.

KJV

And Saul built an altar unto the Lord: the same was the first altar that he built unto the Lord.

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

And Saul built ... - i. e., of the great stone which they had rolled to kill the oxen and sheep upon, he began to build an altar to Yahweh (see the margin); but he did not finish it (compare 1Ch 27:24), in his haste to pursue the Philistines that night.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּ֧בֶן	vai.Yi.ven	and he built	H1129 →
שָׁא֛וּל	sha.'Ul	Saul	H7586 →
מִזְבֵּ֖חַ	miz.Be.ach	an altar	H4196 →
לַֽיהוָ֑ה	la.Yah.weh	to Yahweh	H3068 →
אֹת֣וֹ	'o.To	<obj.> it	H853 →
הֵחֵ֔ל	he.Chel	he began	H2490 →
לִבְנ֥וֹת	liv.Not	to build	H1129 →
מִזְבֵּ֖חַ	miz.Be.ach	an altar	H4196 →
לַֽיהוָֽה׃ פ	la.Yah.weh	to Yahweh	H3068 →

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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
2 Timothy 3:5
having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
leads to
- Isaiah 29:13
  Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught…
- Titus 1:16
  They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
- Matthew 23:27–28
  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
- 1 Timothy 5:8
  If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
- Romans 2:20–24
  an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
Through
1 Samuel 7:12
Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 1:10
  He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,
- Joshua 4:9
  Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.
- Acts 26:22
  But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen: