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1 Samuel 14:37

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And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day.

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  1. 1 Samuel 14:35

    And Saul built an altar unto the Lord: the same was the first altar that he built unto the Lord.

  2. 1 Samuel 14:36

    And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.

  3. 1 Samuel 14:38

    And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.

  4. 1 Samuel 14:39

    For, as the Lord liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.

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