Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 14:38

38 Sǎoluó shuō , nǐmen bǎixìng zhōng de zhǎnglǎo dōu shàng zhèlǐ lái , chá míng jīnrì shì shuí fàn le zuì .

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 14:38 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 14:38

And Saul said, draw ye near hither all the chief of the
people
Or, the corners of the peoples ^F7; the princes, as Jarchi interprets it: and so the Targum, the heads of the people, in allusion to the cornerstones in buildings, which are the ornament, strength, and cement of them, see ( Zechariah 10:4 ) , though Abarbinel thinks the tribes themselves are meant, which lay encamped everyone in a corner by themselves, separated from one another; and these he would have brought together; not the heads only, but everyone, small and great, that it might be seen and known where the sin lay; but he should have observed, that the tribes of Israel were not now present with Saul, but a small number of them:

and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day;
he concluded, from having no answer from the Lord, that sin had been committed, which was the cause of it; but never thought of his own rash oath, which was the cause of the people's sinning, and had brought his son into danger; nor the sin of the people in eating the flesh with the blood; nothing ran in his mind but the breach of the oath with which he had adjured the people, and this he was determined to find out, if possible.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 (Meh twnp) "anguli populi", Pagninus, Montanus

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 14:38 In-Context

36 Sǎoluó shuō , wǒmen bù rú yè lǐ xià qù zhuīgǎn Fēilìshì rén , qiǎng lüè tāmen , zhídào tiān liàng , bù liú tāmen yī rén . zhòng mín shuō , nǐ kàn zĕnyàng hǎo jiù qù xíng ba . jìsī shuō , wǒmen xiān dāng qīnjìn shén .

37 Sǎoluó qiú wèn shén shuō , wǒ xià qù zhuīgǎn Fēilìshì rén kĕyǐ bùkĕ yǐ . nǐ jiāng tāmen jiāo zaì Yǐsèliè rén shǒu lǐ bù jiāo . zhè rì shén méiyǒu huídá tā .

38 Sǎoluó shuō , nǐmen bǎixìng zhōng de zhǎnglǎo dōu shàng zhèlǐ lái , chá míng jīnrì shì shuí fàn le zuì .

39 Wǒ zhǐ zhe jiù Yǐsèliè yǒngshēng de Yēhéhuá qǐshì , jiù shì wǒ érzi Yuēnádān fàn le zuì , tā yĕ bì sǐ . dàn bǎixìng zhōng wú yī rén huídá tā .

40 Sǎoluó jiù duì Yǐsèliè zhòngrén shuō , nǐmen zhàn zaì yī bian , wǒ yǔ wǒ érzi Yuēnádān yĕ zhàn zaì yī bian . bǎixìng duì Sǎoluó shuō , nǐ kàn zĕnyàng hǎo jiù qù xíng ba .