1 Samuel 14:39 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 14:39

As surely as the LORD who saves Israel lives, even if it is my son Jonathan, he must die!” But not one of the troops said a word.

BSB

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ASV

For, as Jehovah liveth, who saveth 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.

KJV

For, as the Lord liveth, which saveth 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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 5, Chapter 4 (604)

By these words he clearly demonstrated the well-ordered procedure of judgment, because the fault must first be discovered, and then the punishment imposed. For the order of judgment is thrown into confusion if punishment is pronounced before the examination of the discovered fault. For lest he strike before the examination, he says: "Bring here all the corners of the people, and see, and know through whom this sin has occurred today."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

But none of the people answered him, that is, none of those who knew Jonathan had broken the order would inform against him. Jonathan was discovered by lot to be the offender. Saul would have lots cast between himself and Jonathan on the one side, and the people on the other, perhaps because he was as confident of Jonathan's innocency in this matter as of his own,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Saul’s rashness becomes more and more apparent. He now adds an additional oath, to bring down yet further guilt in “taking God’s name in vain” The expressions in 1Sa 14:36, 1Sa 14:40, indicate the fear in which the people stood of Saul. None dared to resist his will.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
חַי־	chai-	[by] [the] life	H2416 →
יְהוָ֗ה	Yah.weh	of Yahweh	H3068 →
הַמּוֹשִׁ֙יעַ֙	ha.mo.Shi.a'	who delivers	H3467 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
כִּ֧י	ki	for	H3588 →
אִם־	'im-	except	H518 →
יֶשְׁנ֛וֹ	yesh.No	there it	H3426 →
בְּיוֹנָתָ֥ן	be.yo.na.Tan	[is] in Jonathan	H3129 →
בְּנִ֖י	be.Ni	son my	H1121 →
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
מ֣וֹת	Mot	certainly <to die>	H4191 →
יָמ֑וּת	ya.Mut	he will die	H4191 →
וְאֵ֥ין	ve.'Ein	and not	H369 →
עֹנֵ֖הוּ	'o.Ne.hu	[was] answering him	H6030 →
מִכָּל־	mi.kol	any of all	H3605 →
הָעָֽם׃	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →

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
2 Samuel 12:5
David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
leads to
- Genesis 38:24
  About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Samuel 26:16
  This thing you have done is not good. As surely as the LORD lives, all of you deserve to die, since you did not protect your lord, the LORD’s anointed. Now look around. Where…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Ecclesiastes 9:2
It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices…
leads to
- Malachi 3:18
  So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
- Ecclesiastes 2:14–16
  The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.
- Psalms 73:3
  For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
- Job 9:22
  It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
- Malachi 3:5
  “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud…
Through
1 Samuel 14:44
And Saul declared, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if you, Jonathan, do not surely die!”
leads to
- Ruth 1:17
  Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.”

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About 1 Samuel

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About 1 Samuel