1 Samuel 14:32

1 Samuel 14:32 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
• New International Version (NIV)They pounced on the plunder and, taking sheep, cattle and calves, they butchered them on the ground and ate them, together with the blood.
• English Standard Version (ESV)The 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.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And the people rushed on the spoil, and took sheep, oxen, and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

Context of 1 Samuel 14:32

30How much more, if only the troops had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies that they found? Wouldn’t the slaughter among the Philistines have then been greater?” 31That day they struck down the Philistines from Michmas to Aijalon, though the people were so weary. Then the people rushed greedily upon the plunder, took sheep, oxen and calves, butchered them on the ground, and the people ate them with the blood. 33Then they reported to Saul saying, “Behold, the people are sinning against Adonai by eating with the blood.” “You have acted faithlessly,” he said. “Roll a great stone towards me at once.” 34Then Saul said, “Disperse yourselves among the people and tell them: ‘Each one of you bring me his ox or his sheep, and butcher them here and eat. Don’t sin against Adonai by eating with the blood.’” So all the people each brought his ox with him that night and butchered it there.

1 Samuel 14:32 word by word

וַיַּ֤עַט הָעָם֙ אֶל־הַשָּׁלָ֔ל וַיִּקְח֨וּ צֹ֧אן וּבָקָ֛ר וּבְנֵ֥י בָקָ֖ר וַיִּשְׁחֲטוּ־אָ֑רְצָה וַיֹּ֥אכַל הָעָ֖ם עַל־הַדָּֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And the peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• flewעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• flewעִיט‛îyţ · to pounceH5860
• upon the spoilשָׁלָלshâlâl · spoilH7998
• and tookלָקַחlâqach · to take: takeH3947
• sheepצֹאןtsô'n tse'ôn · flockH6629
• and oxenבָּקָרbâqâr · cattleH1241
• and calvesבֵּןbên · son: young animalH1121
• and slewשָׁחַטshâchaţ · to slaughterH7819
• on the groundאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: soilH776
• did eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• with the bloodדָּםdâm · bloodH1818

Cross-references for 1 Samuel 14:32

• 1 Samuel 15:19Why then did you not obey the voice of Adonai, but rushed greedily onto the spoil—doing what was evil in Adonai’s eyes?”
• Genesis 9:4Only flesh with its life—that is, its blood—you must not eat!
• Leviticus 3:17“It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you must eat neither fat nor blood.”
• Leviticus 7:26“You are not to eat any blood, whether it is from a bird or an animal, in any of your dwellings.
• Leviticus 17:10“Anyone from the house of Israel, or from the outsiders dwelling among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul—the one who eats blood—and will cut him off from among his people.
• Leviticus 19:26“You are not to eat any meat with the blood still in it, nor are you to use enchantments, or practice sorcery.
• Deuteronomy 12:16But you are not to eat the blood—you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
• Ezekiel 33:25“Therefore say to them, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘You eat with the blood, lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood. Should you possess the land?
• Acts 15:20but to write to them to abstain from the contamination of idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Commentaries on 1 Samuel 14:32

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 32The people did eat them with the blood - They were faint through hunger, and did not take time to bleed the cattle on which they fed. This was another bad effect of Saul's rash adjuration.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. 32-34The men were very hungry, so they ate meat without draining the blood. This act broke God's law (see Leviticus 17:10–14) and was a sin against the Lord. To stop more sin, Saul used a large rock as a field altar to properly drain the animals' blood. This incident happened because of Saul's foolish oath.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

In the dictionaries

• Blood
• Cattle
• Discomfiture
• Discover
• Enlighten
• Faulty
• Fight
• Flew
• Moabite
• Philistines

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