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1 Samuel 14:33

in 1 Samuel 14

Then someone reported to Saul: “Look, the troops are sinning against the LORD by eating meat with the blood still in it.” “You have broken faith,” said Saul. “Roll a large stone over here at once.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against Jehovah, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have dealt treacherously: roll a great stone unto me this day.

KJV

Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the Lord, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.

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This verse in 1 Samuel 14

Commentary

7 notes on this verse
Sin against the Lord - See the marginal reference “u.” But the prohibition was older than the Law of Moses Gen 9:4. Compare Act 15:20, Act 15:29.

This site's exposition

the troops are sinning against the LORD by eating meat with the blood still in it

on 1 Samuel 14:33-35

Saul acts at once, rolling a large stone as a place of slaughter so the animals can be killed and drained properly. The chapter adds that this was "the first time he had built an altar to the LORD," in the chapter of his rash oath and his cut-short inquiry. Zeal for the letter of the law and carelessness with the LORD’s word stand side by side in one king.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church2 voices

A commentator

Bede

Commentary on Samuel · Written before 735.

proposed

They reported to Saul, saying that the people had sinned against the Lord, etc. The diligent leaders, knowing the negligence of idle teachers, wherein the people sin against the Lord, baptizing those who have not yet been purified from carnality nor fully instructed in faith, …

A commentator

Gregory the Dialogist

Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 5, Chapter 4 · Written before 604.

proposed

It is proper to the preachers of the holy Church both to rebuke committed faults and to show how those rebuked faults ought to be avoided. Once rebuked, they become known, but if people do not know how to avoid them, once exposed they are repeated. What is shown in this eating of blood, if not the hidden poison of pride? But hidden vices are not cured unless they are exposed. Therefore, to suggest the manner of preachers, Saul first declares that the people have transgressed, then commands that the animals they are to eat be slain upon a stone.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Then they told Saul,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

To prevent this violation of the law, Saul ordered a large stone to be rolled, and those that slaughtered the oxen to cut their throats on that stone. By laying the animal's head on the high stone, the blood oozed out on the ground, and sufficient evidence was afforded that the ox or sheep was dead before it was attempted to eat it.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Roll a great stone unto me - Probably this means that they should set up an altar to the Lord, on which the animals might be properly slain, and the blood poured out upon the earth; and a large stone was erected for an altar.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַיַּגִּ֤ידוּand people told

    vaiyagiduH5046 →370 times

  • לְשָׁאוּל֙to Saul

    leshaulH7586 →402 times

  • לֵאמֹ֔ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • הִנֵּ֥הthere!

    hinehH2009 →843 times

  • הָעָ֛םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • חֹטִ֥אים[are] sinning

    chotimH2398 →238 times

  • לַֽיהוָ֖הto Yahweh

    layahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • לֶאֱכֹ֣לby eating

    leekholH398 →810 times

  • עַל־with

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַדָּ֑םthe blood

    hadamH1818 →360 times

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • בְּגַדְתֶּ֔םyou have acted treacherously

    begadtemH898 →

  • גֹּֽלּוּ־roll

    golu-H1556 →

  • אֵלַ֥יto me

    ʾelaiH413 →5510 times

  • הַיּ֖וֹםthis day

    haiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • אֶ֥בֶןa stone

    ʾevenH68 →273 times

  • גְּדוֹלָֽה׃great

    gedolahH1419 →526 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Romans 2:1

    You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on another. For on whatever grounds you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.

    it leads to

    • Luke 6:37

      Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.

    • Romans 2:3

      So when you, O man, pass judgment on others, yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?

    • John 8:7–9

      When they continued to question Him, He straightened up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.”

    • Romans 2:21–23

      you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

    • Matthew 7:1–5

      “Do not judge, or you will be judged.

  • Through

    Matthew 7:5

    You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

    it leads to

    • Luke 6:42

      How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of…

    • Psalms 51:9–13

      Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.

    • Matthew 23:13–28

      Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

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About 1 Samuel

Anointing of David by Samuel, Félix-Joseph Barrias, 1842, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris. Public domain.
Anointing of David by Samuel, Félix-Joseph Barrias, 1842, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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