1 Samuel 14:38

38 Entonces Saúl les dijo a los líderes:
—¡Algo anda mal! Que vengan aquí todos los comandantes de mi ejército. Debemos descubrir qué pecado se ha cometido hoy.

1 Samuel 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

1 Samuel 14:38 In-Context

36 Después Saúl dijo:
—Persigamos a los filisteos toda la noche y saqueemos sus bienes hasta el amanecer. Destruyamos hasta el último hombre.
Sus hombres respondieron:
—Haremos lo que mejor te parezca.
Pero el sacerdote dijo:
—Primero consultemos a Dios.

37 Entonces Saúl le preguntó a Dios:
—¿Debemos perseguir a los filisteos? ¿Nos ayudarás a derrotarlos?
Pero Dios no respondió ese día.

38 Entonces Saúl les dijo a los líderes:
—¡Algo anda mal! Que vengan aquí todos los comandantes de mi ejército. Debemos descubrir qué pecado se ha cometido hoy.

39 Juro por el nombre del Señor
, quien rescató a Israel, que el pecador morirá, ¡aun si fuera mi propio hijo Jonatán!
Pero nadie se atrevía a decirle cuál era el problema.

40 Entonces Saúl dijo:
—Jonatán y yo nos pondremos aquí, y todos ustedes se pondrán allá.
Y el pueblo respondió a Saúl:
—Lo que mejor te parezca.