1 Samuel 14:30
How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
1 Samuel 14:30 in other translations
| BSB | How much better it would have been if the troops had eaten freely today from the plunder they took from their enemies! Would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been much greater?” |
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| WEB | How much more, if perhaps the people had eaten freely today of the plunder of their enemies which they found? For now there has been no great slaughter among the Philistines.” |
| ASV | How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for now hath there been no great slaughter among the Philistines. |
| YLT | How much more if the people had well eaten to-day of the spoil of its enemies which it hath found, for now, the smiting hath not been great among the Philistines.' |
| DARBY | How much more, if the people had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for would there not now have been a much greater slaughter among the Philistines? |
| BBE | How much more if the people had freely taken their food from the goods of those who were fighting against them! would there not have been much greater destruction among the Philistines? |
| Webster | How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines? |
What does 1 Samuel 14:30 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Samuel 14:24-35
Saul's severe order was very unwise; if it gained time, it lost strength for the pursuit. Such is the nature of our bodies, that daily work cannot be done without daily bread, which therefore our Father in heaven graciously gives. Saul was turning aside from God, and now he begins to build altars, being then most zealous, as many are, for the form of godliness when he was denying the power of it.
1 Samuel 14:30 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Samuel 14:30
- Ecclesiastes 9:18
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
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Context
- 1 Samuel 14:29
Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
- 1 Samuel 14:30
How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
- 1 Samuel 14:31
And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
1 Samuel 14:30 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Cuánto más si el pueblo hubiera hoy comido del despojo de sus enemigos que halló? ¿no se habría hecho ahora mayor estrago en los Filisteos? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Qu’aurait-ce été, si le peuple avait aujourd’hui mangé du butin de ses ennemis qu’il a trouvé? maintenant la défaite des Philistins n’aurait-elle pas été plus grande? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Was wäre es gewesen, wenn das Volk heute ungehindert von der Beute seiner Feinde gegessen hätte, die es gefunden hat! denn wäre dann nicht die Niederlage der Philister groß gewesen? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | quanto magis si comedisset populus de præda inimicorum suorum, quam reperit? nonne major plaga facta fuisset in Philisthiim? |