English Standard Version
1 Samuel 14:31
31They struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint.
1 Samuel 14:31 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
- New International Version (NIV)That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Mikmash to Aijalon, they were exhausted.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Now they had driven back the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. So the people were very faint.
- New Living Translation (NLT)They chased and killed the Philistines all day from Micmash to Aijalon, growing more and more faint.
Context of 1 Samuel 14:31
29Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. See how my eyes have become bright because I tasted a little of this honey. 30How much better if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies that they found. For now the defeat among the Philistines has not been great." They struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint. 32The people pounced on the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground. And the people ate them with the blood. 33Then they told Saul, "Behold, the people are sinning against the Lord by eating with the blood." And he said, "You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here."
Read all of 1 Samuel 141 Samuel 14:31 word by word
וַיַּכּ֞וּ בַּיּ֤וֹם הַהוּא֙ בַּפְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים מִמִּכְמָ֖שׂ אַיָּלֹ֑נָה וַיָּ֥עַף הָעָ֖ם מְאֹֽד׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- And they smoteנָכָהnâkâh · to smiteH5221
- the Philistinesפְּלִשְׁתִּיpelishtîy · PhilistineH6430
- that dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
- from Michmashמִכְמָס, מִכְמָשׂmikmâs mikmâsh mikmash · MichmashH4363
- to Aijalonאַיָּלוֹן'ayâlôn · AijalonH357
- and the peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
- were veryמְאֹדme'ôd · muchH3966
- faintעוּף‛ûph · to flyH5774
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Commentaries on 1 Samuel 14:31
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 31They smote the Philistines - from Mishmash to Aijalon - The distance Calmet states to be three or four leagues.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 31Aijalon. - The modern Yalo. It lies upon the side of a hill to the south of a fine valley which opens from between the two Bethhorons right down to the western plain of the Philistines, exactly on the route which the Philistines, when expelled from the high country about Michmash and Bethel, would take to regain their own country. Aijalon would be 15 or 20 miles from Michmash.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 24-35Verses 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.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 31Aijalon: If the Philistines ran away through Beth-horon, the Israelites chased them for about 32 kilometers (nearly 20 miles).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 31-3431-34. the people were very faint. And the people flew upon the spoil--at evening, when the time fixed by Saul had expired. Faint and famishing, the pursuers fell voraciously upon the cattle they had taken, and threw them on the ground to cut off their flesh and eat them raw, so that the army, by Saul's rashness, were defiled by eating blood, or living animals; probably, as the Abyssinians do, who cut a part of the animal's rump, but close the hide upon…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Samuel 14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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