But the men said, “You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore it is better that you send us help from the city.”
1 Samuel 14:38 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Saul said, “Come here, all you leaders of the people, and let us find out how this sin has arisen today. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then Saul said, Draw near, all the chiefs of the people, and let us see how this sin [causing God's silence] arose today. American Standard Version (1901) And Saul said, Draw nigh hither, all ye chiefs of the people; and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day. Common English Bible Then Saul said, “All you officers in the army, come forward! Let’s find out what sin was committed today. Catholic Public Domain Version And Saul said: "Bring here every single leader of the people. And we shall know and see by whom this sin was committed this day. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Saul said: Bring hither all the corners of the people; and know, and see by whom this sin hath happened to-day. |
But the men said, “You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore it is better that you send us help from the city.”
The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted.
Out of them shall come the cornerstone, out of them the tent peg, out of them the battle bow, out of them every commander.
I see him but not now; I behold him but not near— a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the foreheads of Moab and the heads of all the Shethites.
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is amazing in our eyes’?
built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone;
Israel has sinned; they have transgressed my covenant that I imposed on them. They have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen, they have acted deceitfully, and they have put them among their own belongings.
Therefore the Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they turn their backs to their enemies because they have become a thing devoted for destruction themselves. I will be with you no more unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.
The chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand foot soldiers bearing arms.