1 Samuel 14:35 KJV — MannaFest

1 Samuel 14:35

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

And Saul buildeth an alter to Jehovah; with it he hath begun to build altars to Jehovah.

DBT

And Saul built an altar to Jehovah: this was the first altar he built to Jehovah.

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1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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1 Samuel 7:17
And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the Lord.
1 Samuel 7:9
And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the Lord: and Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel; and the Lord heard him.
2 Timothy 3:5
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
1 Samuel 7:12
Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben–ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.
Hosea 8:14
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

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), that he might offer sacrifice, either by way of acknowledgment of the victory they had obtained or by the way of atonement for the sin they had been guilty of. The same was the first altar that he built, and perhaps the rolling of the great stone to kill the beasts on reminded him of converting it into an altar, else he would not have thought of it.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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