Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 14:39

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 .

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 14:39 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 14:39

For as the Lord liveth, which saveth Israel
And had saved them that day with a great salvation and had wrought a great deliverance for them in freeing them from the Philistines, who had threatened the ruin of the whole nation. This is the form of an oath:

though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die;
that is, though the sin should be found in him, or he should be found guilty of the breach of what he had charged them with an oath to observe, namely, to eat no food that day till evening:

but there was not a man among all the people that answered him;
who knew that Jonathan had tasted of honey, but they would not acquaint him with it; partly because they knew he did it ignorantly, having no knowledge of his father's charge and oath, and partly because of their great affection to him, who had been the instrument of their deliverance and salvation that day.

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 14:39 In-Context

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 .

41 Sǎoluó dǎogào Yēhéhuá Yǐsèliè de shén shuō , qiú nǐ zhǐshì shí qíng . yúshì chèqiā chè chū Sǎoluó hé Yuēnádān lái . bǎixìng jǐn dōu wú shì .