Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a perfect lot. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore Saul said to the Lord God of Israel,.... After the division was made between him and his son on one side, and the people of Israel on the other, and everything was ready for the drawing of…
Barnes' Notes
Give a perfect lot - The phrase is obscure, but the meaning is probably as in the margin.
Adam Clarke
Lord God of Israel, Give a perfect lot - Both the Vulgate and Septuagint add much to this verse: And Saul said to the Lord God of Israel, Lord God of Israel, give judgment. Why is it that thou hast…
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…
Cambridge Bible
Give a perfect lot This and not the marginal rendering "Shew the innocent" is the best explanation of an obscure phrase which occurs nowhere else.
The Sept. however has a very different reading,…
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