1 Samuel 14:31
in 1 Samuel 14That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And they smote of the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint;
KJV
And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
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This verse in 1 Samuel 14
Commentary
7 notes on this verseAnd they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon,.... Michmash was the place where the camp of the Philistines was when Jonathan first attacked them, and from whence they fled, and they were pursued by the Israelites that day as far as Aijalon.
This site's exposition
the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon
on 1 Samuel 14:31-32
The pursuit runs from Michmash to Aijalon, and the starved army rushes on the plunder and eats "meat with the blood still in it" where it falls. The oath meant to secure a complete victory produces a different sin against the law. Barnes reads the rash vow and the eating with blood as one chain, a king’s private zeal creating a public transgression he then has to police.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church3 voices
So on that day they struck down the Philistines, etc. Ajalon signifies great humility. In all the things the Church rightly does, it strikes at the Philistines; because through the good it does, it diminishes the powers of evil spirits; because they must be struck …
The people were exceedingly weary, etc. That the people were said to have eaten with blood should not be thought to mean they ate bloody and raw flesh, which is not at all human but is the nature of beasts; rather, that after slaying the …
A commentator
Gregory the DialogistCommentary on 1 Kings, Book 5, Chapter 4 · Written before 604.
proposed
The day of the mind is the splendor of instruction. But those whom the arrogant teach, because they are inflamed by the ambition of temporal glory, receive a semblance of light, not the truth. When therefore that day is spoken of, what else is signified, except that often by the aim of temporal glory, mighty deeds seemed to be accomplished? For in that day, that is, by the teaching or example of the proud, they strike, because they serve in the ministry of preaching for this purpose: to obtain the splendor of temporal glory.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Aijalon. - The modern Yalo. It lies upon the side of a hill to the south of a fine valley which opens from between the two Bethhorons right down to the western plain of the Philistines, exactly on the route which the Philistines, when expelled from the high country about Michmash and Bethel, would take to regain their own country. Aijalon would be 15 or 20 miles from Michmash.
They smote the Philistines - from Mishmash to Aijalon - The distance Calmet states to be three or four leagues.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיַּכּ֞וּ | vaiyaku | and they defeated | H5221 → | 499 times |
| בַּיּ֤וֹם | baiyom | on the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַהוּא֙ | hahu' | <the> that | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| בַּפְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים | bapelishtim | <in> the Philistines | H6430 → | 287 times |
| מִמִּכְמָ֖שׂ | mimikhmas | from Micmash | H4363 → | 11 times |
| אַיָּלֹ֑נָה | ʾaiyalonah | Aijalon towards | H357 → | |
| וַיָּ֥עַף | vaiyaaf | and it was weary | H5888 → | |
| הָעָ֖ם | haam | the people | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| מְאֹֽד׃ | meod | exceedingly | H3966 → | 300 times |
וַיַּכּ֞וּand they defeated
vaiyakuH5221 →499 times
בַּיּ֤וֹםon the day
baiyomH3117 →2304 times
הַהוּא֙<the> that
hahu'H1931 →1879 times
בַּפְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים<in> the Philistines
bapelishtimH6430 →287 times
מִמִּכְמָ֖שׂfrom Micmash
mimikhmasH4363 →11 times
אַיָּלֹ֑נָהAijalon towards
ʾaiyalonahH357 →
וַיָּ֥עַףand it was weary
vaiyaafH5888 →
הָעָ֖םthe people
haamH5971 →1873 times
מְאֹֽד׃exceedingly
meodH3966 →300 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Joshua 10:12On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley…
it leads to
- Habakkuk 3:11
Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.
- Isaiah 38:8
I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.
- Isaiah 60:20
Your sun will no longer set, and your moon will not wane; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your sorrow will cease.
- Joshua 10:13
So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of…
- Isaiah 28:21
For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing…
- Habakkuk 3:11
Through
Joshua 19:42Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
it leads to
- Judges 1:35
And the Amorites were determined to dwell in Mount Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. But when the house of Joseph grew in strength, they pressed the Amorites into forced labor.
- Joshua 21:24
Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
- Joshua 10:12
On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley…
- Judges 1:35
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Samuel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Commentary on Samuel; Gregory the Dialogist, Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 5, Chapter 4 and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).