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.
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Gill's Exposition
And Saul said, draw ye near hither all the chief of the people,.... Or, the corners of the peoples (g); the princes, as Jarchi interprets it: and so the Targum, the heads of the people, in allusion to…
Here is, I. Saul's boasting against the Philistines. He proposed, as soon as his soldiers had got their suppers, to pursue them all night, and not leave a man of them, Sa1 14:36. Here he showed much…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the chief of the people Lit. "the corner-stones of the people," as in Jdg 20:2, probably the elders or heads of houses.
wherein this sin hath been Saul assumes that some undiscovered sin must have…
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